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

What Women Have Done Men-bodies the coun’ over have been serving on public \ or a Bourg charged with fixing the price of tail foodstuffs. Have their efforts succeeded? They not. ‘The men price-fixers have announced: “So much, my woman, shall you pay for beefsteak and no more,” woman price-payer has taken her market basket in and sallied forth for the beefsteak, But has she been to buy at the price the men price-fixers fixed? She not. Retailers have charged what they would, and the price-payer has paid the price. ad fine muddle, a most muddled muddle, in view of the that a way out seems obvious. If the public commis- charged with fixing the retail price of foodstuffs, made up of women, and the housewives of the com- ity were king the women price-fixers, would not the ng retailer either lower his price or close his ? Would not the opinion of a united womanhood rally support of woman price-fixers? Would not the house- go without rather than pay more than their own n representatives decree? Ye can hear some one answer: Certainly they would oer t, here are some facts out of Houston, Texas, Houston, according to news dispatches, the house- league appointed a fair price committee. The women “the committee immediately visited every packing house A daily ea Arrangements have just been mi to be released exclusively thru The Star in Seattle, The entire staff of the bureau will co-operate with Dr, Blue and his as sistants in preparing this feature Also, answers will be publish- ed to questions asked by Star readers, These readers may re- celve their answers by mail if they will inclose postage stamps. The name selected for this official governmental health column is id wholesale meat dealer in‘ the city, and next made a foro survey of the retail meat trade. Having completed painstaking study of the data sec |, the com- proceeded them to a compilation of a list of fair i By “fair” they meant prices that would a sizable profit to the retailer and yet keep the cost consumer within reason. fair price list was posted on a large blackboard city auditorium and given publication in the news- ‘omen the town over were asked not to buy meat any dealer who refused to abide by the fair list. was the result? In less than no time the women n were buyihg the highest-priced porterhouse and steaks for 25 cents a pound. The price had been 45 cents. Other prices fell accordingly. VER NIGHT THE BOTTOM DROPPED OUT OF THE | COST OF MEAT. : fhe Housewives’ league plans now to extend its activities ‘the lowering of the price of other foods. ho says wo! don’t hold together? The women of n stood er so firmly that certain retailers have to abide by the prices the committee sets. Of course, of these retailers are offered as a part of the now—when will women ly realize that the of women will be sol right only when women come out of the kitchen and address themselves solving? q sp amount of safety devices will totally overcome human matter of accidents. safety devices often increases the disre- that where safety devices are present care. rare, for instance, that the owner of a new any one not used to it is ever injured in climb- ion. The reason is that they ‘ul, who is injured—the one used building as a matter of everyday He becomes so used to it that he fails in even precau —— it is never the novice who falls and is bing about boats and on and off docks. it is the old sailor who is doing it every day ife and by his one-time failure to use care. ones. ; ing the hazard there are relatively few casual- | in the production and handling of high explosives. é one knows the hazard an lue caution. are more accidents about the farming industry than |need Work, not Gab and Revolution. . This mad scramble of everybody for | shorter hours and more pay is positively im- rs are frequently working long distances from ns or tool houses, and in their operation they use rail = acu eather than take the time to go after prevention of accidents is just 80 per cent more a | In the old days, royalty wouldn't trust the people too ar. Now it won't trust them too near. e poks Despite Your Year 3 ote TO — the week finds **~ zt oe wa “Unele Bam, M. D.” Dr. Rupert Blue, probably the country’s most famous sanitarian, has held his present job since 1912 He it was who eradicated bubonic plague In San Francisco in 1903-4,) and again in 1907-4 He served thru the epidemic of Tall calvin dedocted fey the BY DIRECTION of Sargeon-General U.S? Public Health Service. Health Service will conduct 4 daily © Surgeon General Rupert Bive, head of this important federal depart- ment, haa directed the bureau to prepare timely articles on health toples, RUPERT ade whereby the United States Public “health column” in The Star. yellow fever in New Orleans in 1908, Once he went to Italy to end a death«preading epidemic. He end ed It. He bossed the sanitation arrange ments at the Jamestown expoaition. His appointment as surgeon-gen- eral came after he had climbed thru all the grades of the United States public health service, in which he started as ap interne in 1892 He's 52, and @ native of North Carolina. He got hin medical sducation at |the Universities of Virginia and | Maryland, and the London School of Tropic Medicine. He's unmarried and Rear Admiral Victor Blue ts bis brother The first article follows: LENGTHENING T The United States public health service, and. the. various. health agencies of this country are working to prolong the average duration of life In this they are obeying the desire for existence which is the strongest instinct of mankind. Only 4 small proportion of the human race rounds out its tour of duty on this earth. Some people are bern with good bodies, which they treat well; barring accidents, they live a long time. Some people are born with poor bodies, which they treat well, Barring accl- dents, they can live to ripe old age. Some people are bern with good bodies, which they treat badly. They don't last long. HE SPAN OF LIFE It is recorded that in Yorkshire in 1501, Henry Jenkins was born, He | died im 1670, cut off atthe age of 169 He remembered well the battle of Flodden Field. This occurred tn 1613, | when be was 12 years of age, The register of chancery and other courts |ahow the administration of oaths to him 140 years prior to hia death, He fave deposition as witness when he was 157, In his young manhood, when he was a little over 100, he United Sates Public Health Service, | * BLUE. As a matter of fact, there ts no royal road to old age, and It im not jto be attained by a particular dietary lor regimen of life. Perhaps the best rule may be expressed in one, “mod- Moderation tn food, mod- EVERETT TRUE WAIT, GYSRETT, I'm GOING. ALONG With SHAMLOCK, You PeLLows)s SLEUTH (Synopais of p ling chapters Shamlock, the great detective, in quest of three casos of spirits, em bexsled from two feminines, by deduction { human n pulchritudinous and an him to dig, bore, go’ axe & Lunnel some 600, or 4,000 feet, yards or important junc cectl has dug, b pickaxed the entir 4,009 feet, yards ¢ far from hin destin jective or finishing point, there appears on the scene none other than Watt 1 Frankerhoure.) CHAPTER V Mayor Fitzceci! wi (The wixth instalim be stalled in thin ats . BY 0. B. JOY Down in Tenne & poor working 700, 1,000. e, at which CISTGN To M6, SMYTHE: IF You Go WITH US YOU'LL CEAVS THAT RUFFLE AT HOME } THE CHANCES ARE You HANDLE A FIRE ARM AGOUT AS WECL m AS YoU DO AN AVTOMOGILE, AND TE nt of this will tomorrow.) tee asked girl, accused of taking « dress, to furnish bond in the sum of $5,000, and she do it, 80 she has in three months waiting for t to do something with her « And in Ohio judge strong, well-dressed man, @ holding up a to furnish bond in the sum of $2,000, and he did it. Bo he t#n't in jail waiting for to fink for doa a of wome couned of bank robbery in Ohio than of dress stealing in Tennessee S. M. Horine, Atlanta, Ga pti: . j 7 enough cases in hin cellar to keep| Indian cotton manufacturer, has am him busy the rest of his life.” |rived in this country. The lady | wears a diamond in her nose, for the same reason that some of us wear | diamonds In our ears and on our fingers, and for the same reason South Sea Islanders wear jewels as “hitting it up at a pretty ce,’ produced a« nb defense we suggest to Otto Auto. She| Rush Irwin, of Atlanta, Ga., was driving along the county line. | charged with murder, was drawn in “Halt of m was in one county |‘a jury panel as one of his prospect ive jurors, Court officials scratched | eration.” was a remarkable swimmer | | ‘The remarkable thing about Henry Jenkins is the fact that he has left behind him no rules of living which would enable one to duplicate his ifeat, In this he showed great self-/the. body. These make for long repreasion, ‘tenure of life leration in drink, moderation in the joys and worries of life, moderation moderation in reereation, fin work, In God’s Name, Produce! BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) It was Thomas Carlyle who cried at his | threatens to submerge all classes of society general exhortation to the human race: Produce! Produce! In God's name, Pro- duce!” And it is a gospel that needs evangelists right now. The world is overcrowded International Councils are regulating, Sena- ts have been reduced in all their|tors, Statesmen, Writers, Politicians, Labor 80 per cent of the accidents are| Unions, all are working 169 hours a week regulating. But what the bankrupt world needs is Production, not Argufying. Humanity, in the Great War, has had its periodical decuman of waste and destruc- tion. And the only way to remedy the con- sequent ruin is to go to Work and to Save. Some 3,000 strikes, one newspaper ~esti- mates, have occurred in the the Armistice. thru fighting the Hun we other, As was said of our Puritan forefathers when they landed in America: “First they are fewer accidents in the hazardous occupations }fell upon their knees, and then they fell | upon the aborigines,” Let up on the scrapping! Your rights and privileges and liberties will keep for a few months. moral at the present crisis. In this view I am glad ot currence of A. ‘Merriham, secretary of the Metal Workers’ Union, who created a sen- of mental attitude than physical devices—mental|sation in Lyons, France, the other day by in our own_caution and in seeing to it that others|denouncing “the wave of immorality which That is, as soon as we got ~~the working class more than any other.” M. Merriham, who is one of the Socialists who conferred with the German Socialists at Ziemerwald, Switzerland, during the war, and who formerly was one of the most ag- gressive labor leaders in France, ridiculed the pretensions of extremists in labor or- ganizations who talked of such plans as a four-hour day, and said what organized labor needed was to get to work. “You talk of a revolutionary situation,” he said; “but left to itself the proletariat could accomplish nothing. The war has sharpened all appetites and provoked all | sorts of covetousness in all circles, even among the workers. Idealism has foundered under base material preoccupations. “Money is everything! No one wants anything but money. working class from the wave of immorality.” M. Merriham’s speech made a deep im | pression on the delegates, which was evi- denced in a great ovation as he left the platform. . The laboring people of the world may need more money and better conditions. But the way to get these things is not to do poorer work and Jess of it. : And there probably never was a time in history when workers, from girls in the kitchen to skilled operatives in factories, | produced so little and asked so much as right now. | { am a worker myself, but poor as my | werk may be I am not trying to get a raise in salary by making my output less and punker, | with fixers. U. 8. A. since flew at each Just now we note the -con- N the 2ist of October, in 1441, Margery Jourdemain, the witch of Bye, waa burned for fur nishing love potions to Eleanor Cob- ham, the Duchess of Gloucester, In 1867, on the 2ist of October, Edmund Waller, the English lyric poet and political writer, died. On the 2ist of October, in 1692, William and Mary appointed Wil liam Fletcher governor of Pennayi vania and deprived William Penn of his ,rights. Two years later Penn was restored to office. In 1764, on the 2ist of October, j|James Hillhouse was born in New |Haven, Conn. He represented Con necticut in the United States senate, The elm trees which line the New mi |Haven streets, and give the town its Thownente~: millions—of le find Z eemon ves in this condition early in life. And re is no excuse for it. You can check that pee ap, to grow old. You can ca: t qonth with ita joys and enthusiasm into soe all the ’s and 80's. But you must give Nature help you can. The pbb ged ind can find assist. character is in the use of The Great General Tonic a stimal heart, liver Pp crkimnises i wiurepicn red wore fo Beer ee today Ro ert tag 3 Co. ants clirtite, jname of the Elm City, were planted ‘ |by Hillhouse, On the 2ist of October, in 1878, G the fourteenth and last session pf the Contfhental congress adjourned at New York. The next congress tlon, On the 21st of October, in 1797, jthe United States frigate Congtitu |tlon, destined to become the most famous of American warships, was [launched at Boston, English won the greatest naval vic- tory of the Napoleonic wars, was fought. The English fleet of 81 vem, sels under command of Lord Nelson, defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets, 33 ships in all, after ‘an action lasting four hours. Lord |Nelson was killed, On the 2ist of October, in 1805, Samuel Smith, a clergyman, who of Thee,” was born. In 1821, on the 21st of October, ) George Gilbert, the actress, was born, Mrs. Gilbert was long identified with Daly's company, v was elected under the new constitu: | | In 1805, on the 21st of October,| the battle of Trafalgar, in which the/ was the author of “My Country "Tis| § ale | TOMORROW ) ke Young In Body, Mind andO |for several days after picking them. | it i# much better to put them di rectly into the cellar if the latter ean be kept cool. He sure that all your fruit and vegetables have been picked carefully, for decay wf soor set in if there is a single bruised "The Old Gardener Says'| 2 -— ———" | After you have stored your ap ples antl vegetables in the cellar leave the door or window open at |night and close it in the day time lin this way you can keep the tem-|Spot. If you handle your squashes perature down, even tho there may|#* though they were paving blocks be some warm days. Altho many|¥you will have to go without pics people still pile their apples outside! next January, PUT YOUR DOLLARS | TO WORK HERE. | The money you have worked hard to earn. should be put_to_work earning money for you. START WITH ONE DOLLAR— | save systematically, and every dollar you leave | here will participate in the earnings of the associ- | ation | FOR MORE THAN 18 YEARS WE HAVE NEVER PAID LESS THAN 6% Your savings are safe here, because the monéy 1s invested only in Government, State and City Bonds, and in First Mortgages on Improved Property. START TODAY! Resources $3,500,000 Puget Sound Savings and Loan Association. - WHERE PIKE STREET CROSSES THIRD le ‘é ww equanimity of the mind, the soul and} We must save the} hold me of my autom county.” The judge scratched his head, | dug deep into law books, and then declared a mistrial in another! | CITY COP PINCHES COUNTRY cor MANITOWAC, Win.—-County Trat fic Officer Elmer Butterfield found out how It feels. He was pinched | by @ city cop for speeding. He was impressed $15 worth. “I hear Judge Jinks has cases enough to keep him busy for the next two years.” | “I should kay he has! Why, he has |the prisoner, his name when they found Irwin's; present address is Fulton county Jal. “Guilty or not guilty?” asked the judge “Why should I tell you,” replied| “when you've got a jury tw find out.” LEAVING THAT TO THE WIFE! Ben M. Anderson, of Columbia, | Mo., appeared before a congressional meat investigation committee. “We are patriotic people out our way,” Anderson said. “Why, all dur- ing the way we ate this bran bread— | 1 didn’t but my wife did.” Lady Thackesey, wife of a wealthy 4 | 1 C apackage before the war C a package during the war C a package NOW thrust into their lips and cheeks— to show the world we've got ‘em. We have heard of folks who stole | red hot stoves and ghings like that, — but the other day somebody ran away with a 4,000-pound pile driver owned by the town of Sioux Falls, 8. D. Dr. Edwin J Brown Seattle's Leading Dentist 106 Columbia St WRIGLEYS } THE FLAVOR LASTS | SO DOES THE PRICE!.