The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 18, 1920, Page 6

She Seattle Star mail, out of city, 50¢ per month: 2 montha, my 6 her TP year $5.00,-in the ate of Washington, Outside the atat ‘be per month, $4.50 for 6 months, or year. 9 Ry carrier, city, 13¢ per week. “THE SEATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, FER. 18, 1920. [Te Eletion | Shen Do @®e Sat? And How Long Will the Farmer be the Goat? BY DANA SLEETH ‘The Star indorsed Mayor C. B. Fitzgerald because, in its ‘Opinion, he was the man best fitted to be mayor. He was not nominated. In the history of this paper, it has indorsed many good "men who were not elected, and many others who were. The} Star derives no soul satisfaction out of mere victory in a} campaign, nor does it suffer unto the soul if it meets de-| feat. We derive our satisfaction from the conscientious en-| @eavor to appraise the men for the various offices in the! ight of the best interests of the city, state or nation, | And thus we approach the final election for city office) March 2. In our opinion, the best man was eliminated) the contest. Mayor Fitzgerald has been in city ser- for six years. His record has not been attacked on y specific thing. His life is a clean one. He has poise ad balance. He would have kept this city freer from and “politics” than either of the other candidates will He was a man who couldn't make loud speeches, tt he acted intelligently, honestly and fair-mindedly. pite of this, he was made the victim of a most abi n in the primaries. Nothing, specifically, w: rged against him, but generalities were freely indulged in. "You've heard a great deal about the municipal railway the $15,000,000 purchase. Many were led to believe wily insinuations that there was something wrong. thin specific was mentioned. And nothing spe- fic will ever be mentioned, for— ‘The people voted for it, four to one. They knew the they were paying and the property they were get- They clamored for it—the men and the women and : behind Duncan, and the men and the women be- d Caldwell, just as the men and the women behind, Fitz- All were in the same boat. The only ones who ed the deal were the taxation bureau of the Chamber ‘ ree and Councilmen Erickson and Lane. : municipal railway is no issue in the campaign, be- whether one man or another is mayor, the lines will | retained by the city, the traction company will be paid} interest and its principal, and the deal will not be upset. ly statement to the contrary is pure “bunk.” tzgerald was furthermore the victim of one of the shameful “religious” attacks. At no time did he to fight it. He felt it had no place in American) nd it hasn’t. But there are those who stoop to) ng, and thousands of votes no doubt were swung by tralieinne’? ‘Mails and distributed by handbills. j : With a clean record and a clean life, Mayor Fitzgerald | tt down to defeat. It is not the first time this has ppened. The best mayor New York city has had in a) tion was the late Mayor Mitchel, and he was defeated helmingly for re-election. the primaries are over. The Star stated that the n was not a case of personalities. It isn’t. Fitz-| d’s defeat eliminated the more logical man to carry it against class dictatorship. But now Hugh Cald- must “carry on.” His issue now cannot be anything than the one big issue Mayor Fitzgerald pointed out. On the ere is the factional rule crowd. On other is Caldwell, representing all classes. fight with a new ality in it. The wt a it a who Fs ore, support Caldwell now. It counts most. The personalities of the can- $ are secondary. very same reasons that The Star supported Fitz- the primaries, it now gives its indorsement to for the final election, knowing that by doing so making a conscientious effort to serve the people. More Japanese ‘An increased marriage rate, a lower death rate, a decrease divorces, more births than anywhere else in the world. e did it happén? Japan. During 1917 the population of Japan, colonial possessions, registered a net from birth ‘of 612,774. The total recorded births for that year is 84: and the deaths 1,230,279. This was a higher th rate than anywhere else except Rumania and Hungary 1914. War conditions obviously reduced the birth rates both those countries below that of Japan. Divorce in Japan is very simple, involving mainly the de- of one or the other party to the marriage to cancel with the sanction of the family council. In this respect Tesembles the marriage laws of soviet Russia. In spite of this simple proceeding, there was a decrease of 4,452) ' in the year’s divorces. With Japan growing normally at this tremendous rate, th its density of lation as great as in overcrowded Britain, where are the coming generations of the Flowery| agdom to find domicile? including the} Dana Sleeth AS IT SEEMS TO ME y been painting too dark a pi the farmer's life, I write to have © of if |1¢ Is only the unsuccessful and hard-| knows but luck farmers The Star According to internal revenue re ports the farmers of this country are paying over a billion dollars income tax. ‘Then why get us all wrought up and feeling sorry for the poor farmer? A letter you published the other who write letters to evening from a Big Bend dry farmer | stated that he had had three crop failures or partial failures, No won: der his letter was not very optimiatic Now let us hear from several of the dry wheat farmers of Bastern Wash: ington who are at present living in fine houses in Seattle, educating | Evening Sheet,” as the Inte Col Kiethen used to may? No, you w have wyear and w now have » Hoover you might Presidential possibilities Rut we are glad you didn’t succeed with hogs, Mr, Sleeth. If you had never written a column for The Star we would mins you awfully Now let us have a few optimintic remarks from some of our succens ful Washington farmers! RICHARD F. MARWOOD. Richard F. Marwood: By golly, I'm glad you | determination and pep. | I mee now where I missed it; I should have started in with hogs wrote. | Your kind words give me faith, hope, | their children at the university, driv: |Sb0Ut the time I was weaned, sup tng the latest thing in guachariots, | Ported those hoxw from boyhood up| all paid for from their wheat farina, |‘ fibe maturity, and sold them at I WE'LL SAY SO “With the poor becoming rich and the rich patching their clothes,” says un KEingliwh writer, "chaos faces the land.” This is the first time in yearn we've heard of something the didn’t have to worry about. eee “Nobody plays poker for fun,” snid a Beattie policeman when he arrest ed nine men for playing. Mebby they don't, but that's about ali mont fellows get out of it o- poor Great Britain released the German commar of the Scapa Flow fleet that was sunk and has sent him back home, And if the government ix at all grateful, prob jably gave him a medal ee AND THAT'S THE END OF THE oT Notice—I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by Jone- |phine Nelson, Signed, Louis Nelson Public Notice—There is no danger of Josie Nelson contracting any debts against Louis Nelson, as his credit wouldn't stand it, Josie Nelson. Canton (LiL) Register. eee MOST OF "EM ARE THAT KIND Hon. Edward F, Dunne was the Some of them may work “16 hours day” & few weeks during harvest: yes, and it takes them 16 hours a day the rest of the year to spend thelr mone} before the next crop is ready for market. I can name you a wheat farmer living in the University district who last year gave $2,000 to missionary work in Thibet. How many eight- houraday city workers had $2,000 to spare for missions last year? Let us hear also from some of the Wenatchee and Yakima farmers who last fall sold their apple crops on the trees to Eastern buyers for any- where from $15,000 to $30,000 cash. How about the Skagit farmer who raised 120 tons of potatoes Inst sea- son, worth now at least $80 a ton in the pit? Would a letter from him y of Rhis “Pity the Poor tf? One correspondent wishes to know Where the farmer is getting off at propaganda sent thru the United States| the present prices of butter and eggs when he has to pay $5 a sack for wheat and three something a hun dred for shorts and three times as much for hay as he used to pay What kind of farming is thi, Mr. Sleeth—what this? kind of farming is Why doesn't this farmer move to Seattle and put his pigw and cows And chickens on a vacant lot. Then he could pull down eight hours’ pay for a city job and run his farm morn- ings and evenings and save the cost of hauling his feed out of town. I, too, Mr. Sleeth, was once « farmer, and I made more than a liv- ing at ft. But did we holler about | the high cost of feed for our cows and hens and pigs? We did not. We raised our corn and oats and hay and wheat, if we fed it. We fat- tened cattle for market. The hogs lived on what the cattle wasted. The chickens lived on what the cattle and hogs and horses and everybody else wasted, except during snowy weather. The stock furnished the fertilizer for next years crops of corn and oats and hay, ete, which were turned into more cattle and hogs and eggs for the market. That's real farming. Your farming experience, Dana, dear, caused us many tears. You started in the hog business when they were $23 per cwt. to help make the world safe for democracy. And the sound old age of forty-five or| ereabouts, to my material benefit Unfortunately the hogs I have as: | noclated with have to be marketed at from 6 to 9 months, instead of from | [10 to 20 years | | My hogs have alwa that; 20-yearold hogs, hit with any of Mr. An |men, #0 far as I've dincovered Which reminds me that I have a little bill Just at hand. It im for $57 jand it relates to the board bill for two hogs and seven shotes for the month of January—not 20 years ago, | but right now | Maybe those sbotes gained a pound a day; seven shotes, 31 days, makes 217 pounds of pig fat for $57 | Pign are welling at about $13 today | on this market. S80 throwing in | pasture, and labor, interest on the investment, taxes and depreciation, |1 spent $57 in January to feed seven shotes, and I made $28.21, Of course T boarded a brood sow and a boar. but most of the feed went to the |shotes, and you have to carry your brood sows and your boars thru the | winter, don't you? “Raine your feed?” guest of the faculty and student body of St. Clara's college at Sinsinawa Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Dunne delivered an address on “Ireland's Claim to Self-Determination” and |held the rapt attention of hin audience thruout with his forceful presentation of Erin's side of the | case. An infernal reception was ten. dered to Mr. and Mrs, Dunne by the student body.-Dubuque (la.) Times. *-. A fellow down in New York was Arraigned before a judge on a charge of being a fortune teller and wax discharged because he was able to tell the exact amount of the judge's bank balance. tune telling, what waa it? It may sem a remarkable thing to tell the size of a man's bank ao count, but it isn't. We'll wager we can hit nine times out of 10 by saying, “Nothing.” oe . “My wife handed me a quick one last night,” writes W. T. “A certain question came up and I said, ‘Let's talk it over pro and con.’ And she came right back, ‘The trouble with you is that when you talk pro and What's the difference? If your| con it's too much con.’ ” |feed can be sold for mere than your | ak pig fat brings, you lose feeding, The woman who kinsed General | hogs, don’t you? | Pershing in New York nays she isn’t | And I defy anybody to feed hogs | FINE on the stage. We don't know Jon shorts and millrun at $4 a ton| What you make out of this, but to and break even. our mind it means that no manager |, And 1 would love and admire tal ™* seoa'cad bua te ba pave some wine 7 cheaper feeds net SHERCSE ARY) hut as the clerk In the collection No, brother, the small farmer in| @*Partment remarked as he was not getting rich; mowt of the rich | ™**ine out a statement, “I may be are residing in the city and| © good In some jobs, but In this one letting some sucker tenant do the|! fil! the bill.” work. The rest of ‘em made their money out of a big boost in farm |ample of encouragerpent. land prices, or else they had a big} Every man requires some easy | family of boys and girls working for | way to spend his surplus cash; mine | nothing. j'* supporting s few wild acres, and | Some cotton farmers and some a few tame hogs. [wheat farmers did make big money;| But let's have some successful also some corn farmers, and they |farmer letters by all means. Any |walted a generation to do it A) sort of letters that will tell the truth | business man who made money once | about our national bread basket will levery 15 yearn would be a fine ex-| be welcomed | Schein j when the good old Ship of State was) safe and the price of hogs had tum bled to 12% cents you sold out. deserve a Josephus Daniels medal for your noble services, But sup- posing, Mr. Sleeth, you had started in the pig business some 20 years ago, when hogs were so cheap it didn't pay to buy hog cholera serum for them, and corn was burned instead of coal all over the Middle West? Supposing you had five or ten dollars those good old times and had started In the hog business and that you stuck to it all those yearn until our country went to war and hogs jumped to $23. And supposing you had sold out then instead of waiting for them to tumble—sold the thous | ands of porkers you should have ac- cumulated during those thrifty years, and the half a dozen farms you had bought cheap—would you now be You) | Conducted Under Direction of Dr. Rupert Blue, U. 8. Public Health Service HOW TEETH GROW Care of the teeth should begin inyjthese teeth cannot develop as they earliest infancy, for proper attention| should if the body is not supplied |to diet at this time (mother’s breast/ with a sufficient amount of the neo feeding) has marked influence in|essary building material. Hence, in the development and character of|the food for the child we should | the teeth, }look expecially to that part which When the baby comes into the| builds bony structure, of which the world it is apparently. toothiess.|tooth is a type. The two most tm Nevertheless at this time the firat| Portant of these are phosphoric acid| teeth are practically completely |4n@ lime, and for the growing child formed, lying beneath the gums. In| there is no better source of these fact, under these first teeth there|!mportant elements than milk, moth- are already the beginnings of the|¢r’s milk in infancy and clean cow's permanent teeth. It needs no|milk Inter. After infancy the diet If that wasn't for. | another, The Thoughts that are No uneasy and disturbing tunes ancholy; and little tripping laughter and gay mischief memory, their glee-notes flower-bells, and whisper premonitions and apprehen- sions and subtle fears; the trickish fun that come to you at funerals, and the gloom Thoughts that visit you at feasts. What an sparrows, FROM AN EXGOB Faditor The Star: [ am an ex service man with an honorable dis charge. 1 believe tn our capitalistic form of government. But whenever labor or groups of labor protest against the cont of liv. ing and ask for more pay and band) themselves together into a union to force their demand, the howl of “Bolshevik” arises from some swivel chair patriot. He denounces them as radicals who are attempting to overthrow the government, and be demands laws to keep them from striking, to “put the screws on” and “to show them who is bons.” He bellows with leather lungs about “staunch Americanism” and uphold ing our sacred institutions. Look up his position during the war and sce how far from the front line trenches he was. He is of the type who worked at some war in- dustry during the war and brasen- ly states that he believes “he did just as much as the boys in the trenches.” I've heard this statement many times from these patriotic | draft evaders. How they can summon the nerve |to say such a thing is beyond me | Of course this work had to be done, but for a man to claim as much glory as the doughboy who worked |for a dollar a day anywhere and everywhere, lived on canned bill and beans, took orders like @ dog and ved the same, hiked thru rain and mud night and day and stopped bullets——-well, would you call it “do- ing just as much"? But they are patriotic and they take every opportunity to show it— the brand of patriotism that smacks ot hypocriey—loud talking, brass bands and flag waving. Every person or publication which takes the side of labor in the dis putes between Iabor and capital’ is branded as dangerous to the country |and the publication suppressed. The | charges of sedition or treason are seldom proven to be true. There are two sides to this quee tion and in order to convince the | people that American form of gev- jernment is better than Bolshevism, a thoro discussion of the merite of both sides must be allowed. If we cannot show good enough cause to continue our present form of gov- |ernment, it is time to change it. | ‘This method of showing only our own side, and suppressing, imprison. writing a column for “An Obscure!lengthy explanations to prove that/ Of every child should include a flae8| ing and deporting advocates of the amie of milk with each meal, and in ad jother side, is breeding a growing “What do you think when nothing?” is what children used to ask one | elfin Thoughts that come peeping in at the door and run away before you can catch them; the sad Thoughts that sit back | hidden somewhere in the woods and caves of the mind, and play plaintive melodies that you hear when you are not listening and cannot hear at all when you listen, interstitial moments of graver affairs you glimpse dancing on some moonlit sward of awakening mirth fathoms deeper than even a smile; the scary Thoughts that show their twisted faces at the window-pane of your comfortable hour On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Thoughts BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) glancing swift fish, golden and striped and speckled, or eel-like and insinuating, or big and fierce as sharks, or swarming as min- nows, or horrible as devil-fish! We say “I think.” But do we think Thoughts or do they think us? We originate none by the will. They come, as spirits from the vast deep. They appear, out of the nowhere, _ Fg messengers from unknown lands. As I go to sleep they hover all within me; and when I awake in the morning I find them busily a-wing. The big Thoughts, the kind you spe and that you find in books, the plain clear Thoughts, they are understan but what of the Thoughts between , the interfering, hide-and-seek, pt din Piglen - rr. por apropos of nothing a’ , what of them Sometimes they are best of all, and rise the heart into unexpected ecstasy, sow in us the true seeds of and the rarest impulses of divinity, drip- you think ; Thoughts, the of fluent mel- Thoughts of that in the like lies tinkling that ‘Thoughts of “aviary is the mind, with all sorts of fluttering birds, some red and yellow and foreign, some commonplace as drab some loathsome bats, some weet-singing as trilling rollers! x What an Aquarium is the mind, with its IN THE EDITOR’S MAIL ping bits of stars in our Thus James sense and reason of the people. Patriotiem will support any gov- ernment. It held the German gov- ernment together. But It ts poor proof of a government's right to exist. Patriotism has had a severe setback since the war. People gen- erally have ceased to fly into a fit of passion and blindly support every action of the government We have dropped back to peace |time, but the cost of living con- tinues to mount, and evidence of enormous profiteering is exposed. The wages have increased, but not) in comparison to the increase in the cost of the necessities of life. The workman strikes for what he knows is due him—more pay. He is in- variably denounced by the press of the country. Hb believes he is right and, looking for support, he finds) it in the labor press and the pamph- lets of the ultra-radicals And he finds in them altogether too much documentary proof things not found in the so-called capitalistic press. Lies, trickery, un- @erhanded, unlawful methods to break the union and discredit labor are exposed. Tt is a short time, then, ti! we have the birth of a “Wobbly.” And why should anybody wonder? Should he be meek and docile, read only certain papers and accept whatever bay is given him? The prevention of Bolshevism is in the hands of the capitalists and our lawmakers. Not laws to sup- Press, imprison and deport — good God, they will soon have to deport half of America—but laws which will insure justice, fairness, regulate the control and price of the neces- sities of life, and what seems most have nothing to lose. The capitalist must curb his greed, give up his attempt to musz- tle the voice of labor, to discredit the unions and subsidize the press. He is not expected to open his arms to the union in brotherly love, but Ee and kindling strange 4 ight. Thompson: As in the flelds grow wheat ears, So grow and wave in the human mind Thoughts. But the delicate Thoughts of Love Are the joyous therein-between-blooming Red and blue flowers. he must negotiate with them in a — fair, square, businesslike way. Tt is of Mttle use to pass laws to stop treasonous talk, to imprison — radicals or to preach the of Americanism. We are then fighting the result of our condition, and the cause, a spreading sore, re mains - We used to have a doctor in the, navy who out of a minguided of humor or ignorance always a dose of salts for a slight e1 injury. This is analogous to ti efforts of our statesmen to stamp’ out Bolshevism. AN EX-GOB. DONT LOK FROM HERE. A little “Danderine” ugly dandruff and eh dition to this there should be other! wuspicion in the minds of the peo —By CONDO sources of mineral saits, such 48/ ple that there is a combine of the ‘ fruits, green vegetables and Pure! capitalistic press to suppress the/ a water. |truth regarding labor. The main From what has already been said argument used in support of our concerning the development of the yovernment is an appeal to the teeth through usage, {€ ts clear that! triotism and not the common food should be presented in euch a\ ee” form that it will require chewing.| breads, hard tack, baked potatoes, Por this reason the diet should in-jeaten with their jackets on, fresh clude a certain amount of coarse | apples; these and similar articles in- material designed especially to ex-|cluded in the ‘iet will do much to ercise the teeth, Coarse whole-grain | insure good teeth. Wanted Experienced WOOLEN MILL WORKERS Particularly EXPERT SPINNERS and WEAVERS Permanent Work—Good Pay '/EVERETT TRUE —=AND GVOGN AS EARLY \1AS THREE YCARB AGO L PUT He PROPOBITION UP "TO GACH ONS AND THe ALK AOMITTSD THAT [T COULD Be DONE. Ever SINCE THGN 1 Have —---- Never Too Old The other day a young fellow strolled into the govern- ment land office at Madera, Cal. He had come from O’Neals, 25 miles distant, that morning, and intended to return that afternoon. He applied for 160 acres of land as additional) to a homestead entry perfected 13 years ago. | “The land I’ve got,” he explained, “isn't enough to keep me busy. There’s need for more food, and I’m going to} _ do my bit toward producing it.” He gave his name: _ James Smith. | “Your age?” inquired the land office man. | “I was 103 my last birthday,” the applicant replied. _ There you are! A young fellow—only 103—so young in| ambition and so imbued with the work idea that he’s willing) and anxious to tackle a brand new homestead entry when| the century mark. Any one who knows aught about! Riecsteading lands knows what a tremendous job this! young fellow is facing. But nobody knows it better than he.| Honestly, now, doesn’t it make you feel like taking off} your hat to Jim Smith of O’Neals? | __SavingMoney | _ “A man can’t save a dollar and put it in a bank without! increasing the demand for labor and without providing _ more work.” | That’s what Roger Babson, America’s foremost business statistician, writes. ‘ “Saving money,” says Babson, “turns surplus labor into ital, which goes into buildings, machinery, and other “4 which in turn produce more wealth. “The best way to delay hard times is by saving money.” Isn’t that the*truth? | If prices fall and wages fall, every dollar you now save will be worth all the sacrifice you made in the saving of \ it. If wages do not fall, if hard times do not come, 9 it will be due to the fact that there were enough men and’ / women in this country who had the good sense to save their dollars while the earning of them was good. > >PDD an Royal Worcester CORSETS ARE the ONLY corsets made with the patented Ol'C (04//see) clasp which will not Pinchs, Squeak or Twist, always Stays Flat, and the, STUD cannot Pull Out or Break Off! Every’ | woman should wear them. 4 |f- SEM Them | ; ~ e Sioreslrerywhere @ MY DEAK JONES, DON'T HARP ON ONG sussecr ACL THE “TIME!!! \r You CAN'T LCARN TO Qurr tT ETHER 'You OR THOSE WHO HAVE TO LISTGN To You WILL LAND IN HE Boosey HATCH It MAISG X CAN CURSE YoU OF IT BY THS N34 CATING ON OF HANDS]!! No Labor Troubles at any time Pleasant Working Conditions SIPS IIIs > Bceaeeeeaceecee WRITE TO OREGON CITY WOOLEN MILLS EMPLOYMENT DEPT. OREGON CITY, OREGON (Give particulars about experience) |