The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 9, 1919, Page 6

Zhe Seattle Star By wen. out of ot 1.50; € mont? tate of Wash Tbe per month, $4.50 for eu per year, Ly earrier, city per month; 2 months The $ $15 Shoe—and Other Things Editor The Star: On the 5th inst. you cette an article ftating that the cost of producing a $15.00 shoe is only 98 cents. : Even if this statement were correct, do you think a “Statement like that tends to produce harmony and confi- _ dence in the community? Articles like that are about the best that could be published. We might just as well say that it costs you one-quarter ‘of a cent to produce your paper while you receive two cents \ a copy and from 80 cents to $1.25 for advertising Why pick on shoes? The price on shoes today is not > as much proportionately as when I was a young man. The ordinary mechanic then had to work two or three days ‘for a pair of shoes, while I worked two weeks. They do not do so today. It has been figured out that in the average factory each ‘employe makes three pairs of shoes a day, so if you had the average wage of each employe you could easily figure actual average cost of the labor. If people would be content to wear plain, ordinary styles, price would be much less than it is today. Yours truly, J. HW. HOYT, Hoyt Shoe Co. Bolshevist propa Dear Mr. Hoyt: The authority for the statement you Pobject to was given in the article, yiz., Mrs. Catherine Derry, Toronto, Canada, who w peaking of her investigations the Canadian shoe indus ting shoes, perhaps she is right. No one has disputed | figures and given the evidence to date. if the average wage per pair is 98 cents, and the average an makes three pairs a day, that is $2.94 a day; isn’t it about the average wage of the women in the shoe fac- © You certainly took an unhappy comparison when you d the price of newspapers to prove that everybody is it; that is, boosting 98 cents to $15. As it happens, the newspapers in this country are today the only commodities that are being sold at a price mbling pre-war schedules, and it is a fact that the con- ner, when he buys a newspaper today, buys it on a margin than when he buys any other product on the at THE SEATTLE STAR—TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1919. | EDITORIALS - - EVERETT TRUE Tec HE ONS THING, JOHNSON Ever A’ MOMENT THAT You'R , NOT THINKING AS THS ee WELL, THEN, ONS OF THOS? ON, YOU CAN COMG Back HERE AND ULC BS WILLING To TALK WITH ‘You WW s she makes her living by| is.any daily paper in the country today being sold much more than the cost of white paper in it. ee, for your opinion that the publication of such articles evism, that’s where we disagree. | We believe that while it is a public duty to throttle the and to uphold the foundations of our govern- it is also a duty to throttle the crooked, grafting, profteer, and to as speedily as possiblp put all) on a sane basis, and enable the average family) live without paying tribute to the plunderbund. The profiteer who makes it impossible for the worker, her he be carpenter or school teacher, professor, clerk} motorman, to buy shoes or warm clothing or bacon or! eggs, is stirring up as much trouble for all of us as} n mouthy reds, who take advantage of the situation o creat dissatisfaction. aharpooning. The rent hog, the landlord, the packers, | profiteers generally, have for months been well larded | turned over the fires of criticism in this paper, and continue to turn. We agree with you that if everybody was content to) ir plain shoes the price would be less, and that there are many fifteen-dollar-a-week shop girls wearing fifteen-| ir light kid shoes. e editor recently gave up $12.20 for a plain,| h . arencacn pair of shoes, that four years ago would! we cost him not more than $5. | Who gets that odd $7? Certainly not labor; probably the shoe dealer; who then? Brother, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, profiteering, as well as about the reds and their is imperative if this country is not to be racked and) d in the red cradle of a real revolution. Those who cry peace when there is no peace, are doubt- | well meaning persons, but they are on the wrong track. But be sure of t The Star in fighting the profiteers il strive to deal justly with all men and to persecute no in Yours truly THE EDITOR. San Francisco has at least five landing fields for com- mercial airplanes; Portland possesses two first class air- dromes, and Seattle hasn't a square foot of ground where a land plane can light without danger of being “washed out.” Which cities will be the choice of the United States _ government for terminals of the transcontinental aerial - mail service? Right! Help! Help! We're all scrambled up again, on international eee taconality and diplomacy, doggone it! ving day, at Paris, Bulgaria and the Allies|*- ‘signed a peace treaty. Under-Secretary Polk, Henry White and Gen. Trasker Bliss signed for the United States. __ The United States has not been at war with Bulgaria. Can Polk, White and Bliss make a treaty that’s at all _ binding on the United Sta a treaty not confirmed by the United States senate? These be times that strain the editorial mind, all right. law, Arthur J. Smith, “red” leader, sent Kast last spring “a local immigration authorities to be deported from the nited States, was released by the Eastern officials. A week ago he was arrested in Seattle for violation of the espionage act. Steps are being taken for his second de- portation. If at first you can't deport, try, try again. “Telephone girls martyrs of business, Strain ruins nerves after five years.” News item How about the nerves of the public? Snappy Christmas to you, says the weather man. Banker Collier has gone to Arizona. On the 70 per cent still due to Northern bank depositors, Collier could go even further, despite the higher cost of traveling. Lincoln high school girls have voted to cut out fancy dress and coiffure. Gee, but that'll make father peeved. Yes, it will. Seattle's traffic squad is headed by Lieut. C. G. Carr. When Carr meets car—Oh, well, you finish it any way you like. Seattle theatre fans will have an opportunity this week to see how “She Stoops to Conquer.” If she stoops, we'll rat she won't wear one of these modern vine-clinging 8 Greater Theatres Co, plan a ballroom in connection with | their, next playhouse. Evidently got the idea from watching ’em ogo on the pavement these chilly days, | no ithe | Certainly The Star has not picked out the shoe trade slands in the neck, fever and prostra:| him examine your ryen “SEPTIC SORE THROAT” Septic sore throat i* a highly municable disease affecting the! throat, which frequently occurs in ep idemics among people using milk from a particular supply It in characterized by a redness and renter of the mucous membrane of throat, enlargement of the don. ‘The threat at first is generality! diffusely reddened somewhat as in scarlet fever; later white patches ap | pear in the majority of « sometimes fuse to form a membrane suggestive of diphtheria asen whi The stubborn enlargements of the |neck glands are highly charac uc. temperature is more or lens | elevated, often rising to 104 degrees | Fahrenheit or more, and weaknoss i pronounced and out of proportion |to the local symptoms. In some in stances 4 transient rash appears which may be confused with that of | scarlet fever The severity varies greatly cations are tonsilar abnc |flammation of the fn | thritia, erysipeias, pneur | nitis, nephritis and en of the symptoms The common compli wes and in dt ar onia, perito Death may occur from pneu or from general blood poisdning, or n old people merely from the ger | eral deprekwion due to the | ness. Septic sore throa | «prea jtact with an | from the disea means of infected ter case, it is believed that the in- fective agent (a germ known as |“atreptoccocus”) comes sometimes |from a disease of the cow's udder jand sometimes from the throat or | the infected hands of those suffering | from septic sore throat, A person affected with symptoms above described should promptly con sult a physician, to be t con suffering indirectly by milk In the lat ———--__ —____¢ | Writes Verse, Too i Rata. (HALHET I NEW YORK,—Arleen Hackett isn’t satisfied with acting. She writes verse—and gets it published, too! She has banked on the number 13 for her luck ever since her birth, and #he claims It has brought her lots of happiness, Common wense is undoubtedly a good thing in its way, but it has broken few records, 2 teris- | min | WE'LL SAY SO ] Greeting Herereretert! Fine lays these for hot toddies (it we ould got one) over too (, w «. 0) Bu CONDO PERSONAL If the thief who stole the only out we ever had off the hood will return the over Ford, no ques- vere f our Ford. at and take the ions will be asked eee you put a quart of alcohol In lator the car won't gét cold wants to put he other wants t © may be keen Hut we lost our 1916. . ene Viatton, the menial haber- daaher yoe time gave us & box of Mars for mentioning his name in| ur column nothing, only we beg leave to call attention to the fact at this time. Skating on the port for some skates Januar: 1, WHEN You FeeU SANE MOMGNTS COMING! Ob. Also, we mentioned Hazen Titus) snd he sent us a Christmas cake, . . We don't kno ettie the miners’ strike, but all we ask is one guess to tell who ia) oing to settle FOR. It. .- “Tut.” an the lady tn the beauty arlor remarked, “This in a skin ame.” eee OUR OWN COUNTRY SPONDENCE AMMONDALE, Nov, 28.—Little| Mary Moon got very badly bit one tay last week while pulling feathers out of Aunt Lib Skidmore’s parrot’s tall to trim doll hats with. Mace MeMartin has started to take music lessons from Professor Tod lington, Mace plays the cymbals in the Ammondale Cadet band, but plays by ear and wants to perfect | [himself in music #o he can play} them by note. | Karl Dubolce, the barber, reports ors put mugs in the! p lant week. All the |mpacen in the rack are now filled ex: | leept elght. On account of the high jcost of living Karl han had to raine the price of hairouta to a dollar and to charge 5 cents for a neckshave. Al Duncan treated his wife to din ner at the Wednesday #0 wiping dishes at home, which he ha» *\done regular since Mra, Duncan's Qw hen 1 read, my eyelids twiteh.| help quit three weeks ago. |The trouble is recent and appears to| J0¢ Stanley has a t-yenrold hen be getting worne. What shall I do? | that has laid an egg every day since A. You propably need. giansea,|AUsust the 4th. Joe's hens are lay Consult a reliable ocutiet and have| ine 8° fast that his cellar is full and “¥°l he has begun to store them in his |haymow, where there is more room. lhe using only one-half of the mow ‘as t Lae bay Wy ago I had & cold 1” tor hay wince he bought @ tractor head and it has left me with 4) Gink Swift, night wateh at the wevere neuralgic headache over the! nandie works, has bought a new right eye. What would you advise? | kind of a bottle that he carries his A. This symptom ts very suggen-|coffee in and that keeps his coffee tive of an inflammation of the hollow | hot ull he eats his midnight lunch, bene making up the forehead, Thia| this saving him the trouble of heat condition, known as “sinusitie” injing his coffee in the old-fashioned very common and can be treated suc | WAY coanfully by a nome and throat epe-| cialist who draws out the accumu-| Inted pus, Do not neglect the trou CORRE. American House last he could get out of) Qa BOTIONS ANSW) ERED . Cartridge silk, says a style author ity, may be used for women's drerses this winter. In which cane, of course, |the women will have good excuse for Would you advire treatment of | Ung lots of powd a ® lump in the breast with White's syntem of colored lights and influ ce of magnetic meridian? A. Decidedly no! What kind of rubbish have you been reading? Go to @ reputable surgeon at once and follow hig advice. Q. What in the best treatment for adenoids? A. Removal by surgiea! operation by @ competent physician “UNCLE SAM, either in this column questions of gen FEATURE | Franklin. |a man to his family was to get ahead of the jof investment. there are represented on the list fifteen dif | issues, |followed good counsel. who is going to | policy. jand fourth. jform | Seattle | On the Issue of Americanism There Can ge Mo Compromise es | YOU AND YOUR MONEY! The Variety of Roosevelt’s Investments BY JOHN M. OSKISON MONG thrift talkers Theodore Roosevelt | 3y far the larger part of his bonds werd used to be quoted along with Ben | Sod pp agen Vang digs « a 7 “ig Arie hs “ae 3. and O., Central of New Jersey, Cen In his opinion the first duty of | of Georgia, Burlington, Northern Pa | Great Northern, Wabash, Southern, | Paul, Alton, ete. Generally speaking, they | were the sort of bonds our savings banks | buy; income on them ranged from 31% to 5 | per cent. | Safety first was obviously the Roosevelt” policy in making investments. He own bonds of a par value of $565,000, the income from which was between $20,000 and | $25,000 a year—not much above 4 per cent, Roosevelt either knew a good security or He was a successful man who in his life | Of the fifteen stock | jjlustrated his own fine teachings. He issues passing to his estate only two are | wasn’t rich in the sense that isgunderstood set down as of no value—and of one of | | in Wall Street. Probably the larger share these he held only three shares. Three New | of the $811,000 he left was inherited. But York bank stocks and the stocks of such | he did add something to the accumulation jrailroads as Pennsylvania, Atchison pre-| to be passed on to his large family. ferred, and Great Northern preferred He did not make money-getting his chief |showed the conservatism of his investment | interest—or even one of his chief interests. In that respect he was representative of the best in America, of the best in the | world, But he used diligence and sound sense in the handling of the “ten talents” | which had passed into his care. He spent freely because he earned largely. He was generous. He lived in comfort, | cared nothing for the luxuries. He saw to it that the larger life he loved was amply | financed. Dying, he not only left the world | richer because of his life, but he passed | on a material inheritance a little larger tha | he had received. And that was the substance of his thri teaching, the proper ambition of the tru i American. day's need, to lay up something in the way Recently the complete inventory of prop- y left by T. R. was made public by the w York state tax authorities. It fur- nishes an interesting study in diversity, for | ferent stock issues and thirty-eight bond | His heaviest bond investment was in the | government Liberty issues—the first, third He put $75,050 in them. In but two other bonds were his holdings as great as in the first issue of Liberties, the 319s, into which he put $30,000. He had, also, $1,000 of the Canadian victory loan, due in 1923, and $10,000 of the Anglo- French bonds, payable in 1920. _ Three thousand dollars invested, in Mex- ican bonds was written off as a ‘loss, and $20,000 Rock Island bonds of an old issue | were set down as of no value. On the whole, probably not 8 per cent of Roosevelt’s in- | vestments turned out to be worthless. QUESTIONS ARMY STORE Editor The Star: Can you tn- me and other interest parties the reason of the with-| drawal of the sale of the army) food supplies, such as canned ba- con, peas, corn and small cans of beef and several other articles, and the sudden appearance of such/| articles at the public markets at nearly double the price which was reed by the government, there are tons of such | supplies still on hand in the Seattle | 5 warehoune? It does look good to me. In fact, ft looks as tho there ts a colored gent | in the woodpile somewhere, and I believe that at least one of our daily newspapers ought to have backbone enough to do a ittle in- vesti¢ating into this matter, a} other things as well, such as the! profiteering going on in the retat! trade at present. Retail stores in| today are charging any-| thing from 100 to 200 per cent over | the wholesale cost on wearing ap- | pare! and shoes, | Trusting you will give this mat- | ter your attention. Respectfully, | FRED L. LINDFIELD. THE DIVIDING LINE Between Civilization and Barbarism appeared when Man first began to take thought for the future. assured, too, when you systematic- ally plan and save for future needs. Savings Department Open Every Saturday Evening From 6 to 8 for Convenience. | The Seattle National Bank Resources Over Thirty Million Dollars, Second Avenue at Columbia. Your oaly to hygiene, sa prevention of impossible for him | tons of @ purely personal nature, of to, preseribe for individual diseases. INFORMATION EDITOR, 8. Public Health Washington. D.C. v | TOMORROW IN the 10th of December, in 493 B.C, the tribunes for the Rom an people were first chosen. There after a fete was held annually to commemorate the day on which the tribunes attained their authority, In 270 B. C, on the 10th of De cember, the month then called Gamelion, Epicurus, the Athenian philosopher, died three days after | hin Tist birthday. ‘The academy es tablished by Epicurus was a re | markably well-regulated society. He [taught to his disciples a rational philosophy of wisdom and frugality. On the 10th of December, in 26, Rome was delivered by Belisarius after a period of 60 years of servi-| tude under the barbarians. 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