The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 6, 1920, Page 6

On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star out of city, S00 per month; 3 menthe, a r he Justice for Soldier and Sailor milion EVERETT TRUE 1 AM A TONANT — ]IN ONG OF YouR | WE'LL SAY SO Greetings! AMERICAN LEGION SHRAPNE We take pleasure to The American Legion, thru its executive committee, asks that Uncle Sam pay to all ex-service men and women a $50 “bond for each month of service during the war, ir ~ Commander Franklin D’Olier, in presenting the legion’s ease, says the government has granted additional pay to ‘its clerks for war service. Wartime workmen in shipyaras and munitions plants were paid high wages. i What the soldiers and sailors want, therefore, is not ‘in its strict sense a bonus, They want a compensation : ted to other government rates of pay. And they have coming to them. The United States committed a regrettable blunder by paying our soldiers at least $3 a day, as this newspaper : ted at the time. The result is that the service man home to find the cost of living inflated, the buying of the dollar deflated, and himself without war to help him build for the future. Of all suggestions so far advanced for a fair and retro- tive compensation to our active war forces, the proposed rion bonds plan is the best, the most just, the most “It dovetails in with the present necessity for government omy, for the bonds would involve no immediate expen- re of money. y would be issued directly from the government to ex-service men and women, with no intermediate float- of a bond issue or increased taxation to pay for them. bonds would mature at a future date, in line with just contention that the future generations should help for the great war which was conducted as much in ir interests as the present’s. Canada and Australia, the two countries most like ours, already set the example, tho both their resources ‘and man power were drained more than ours by the war. tralia sent 400,000 of its 5,000,000 population over- It paid its fighting forces 40 per cent higher than ar men were paid. Yet Australia did not consider its duty cor when it had merely brought its fighters home Australian blinded in the war is given a $3,500 home y his government at a rent of 2 cents a month. Re- men were given from $10.50 to $15.50 a week until found jobs. Able-bodied ex-service men who desire n are loaned $2,500 as working capital at low interest. from a population of 8,000,000, sent 400,000 It paid its soldiers better than America. ned Canadians were given bonuses, ranging, accord- to length of service, from $400 to $600 for married and $280 to $420 for single men. Returned Canadians # $75 a month until they found jobs. has free vocational and farming training for its Conaucted Under Direction of Dr. Rupert Blue, U. 8. Public Health Servos fighters. Those who want to farm are loaned by the ament up to $4,500 for land, $2,000 for live stock $1,000 for buildings and equipment. is at 5 per cent and the borrower has 25 years m which to pay. The soldiers’ land settlement board of has spent about $200,000,000. contrast with Canada and Australia, the United States done practically nothing for its ex-service veterans. Lane project, to give them reclaimed land, fell thru. bonus was voted, but it was a drop in the bucket. forms of bonuses have been advanced. iy suggested now what the soldiers themselves, thru the! Legion, want. They ask nothing but fairness.) bonds can be granted without financial diffi- A ey should be granted. (From the Everett Tribune) The election of Hugh M. Caldwell as mayor of Seattle the outcome that generally was regarded certain by n forecasters. there was any surprise in the poll it was furnished by Tindall, candidate for the long term in the city) cil. Tindall in the primary ran a poor sixth. ed to get under the wire as an eligible. election is a clear example of what newspaper sup- properly directed, can accomplish. It ly what the Tribune said a few days ago about “the of the press.” He just Caldwell was nominated in spite of the three Seattle) q 1 have two poys, 3 years and|"mptoms of thyre 3 that opposed him; he would have been elected |® months old, respectively, with kid-/ "re ne ra hethe! they had swung around to his support in the as they did, or remained passive. One evening newspaper, however, decided to present the tions of Tindall to the voters. In three or four ‘ ive issues last week it told who Tindall was, what ‘was, what he had done and how he had done it, what stood for and what he opposed. ‘It presented Tindall for its readers to look over. It drew comparisons between Tindall and the other five candi- , leaving the other five to present their qualifications » any way and thru any channel they pleased. ‘The newspaper gave its large clientele of readers a chance learn everything regarding Tindall and left these readers draw their own conclusions about him. Hundreds of voters, after reading about Tindall, decided she was one man they wanted to vote for. ‘result? From being a bad last in the primary, Tindall led the _n race with 10,300 votes over his nearest he publicity given to Tindall by that one evening news- indicated the real “power of the press.” | Trade With Mexico "One hundred and fifty American businessmen have met Mexico City to plan ways for increasing trade between o and the United States. Each is an ambassador of ; e. Each is doing more than all the professional diplo- Mats to re-establish cordial relations along the Rio Grande. America needs Mexico’s products and Mexico needs ’s manufactures, Irritations and threats supply no- 's needs. Mexico’s repudiated financial obligations can be paid if Mexicans are encouraged to earn the money which to pay them. The money can be earned when og cy, pn her foreign trade. He for Mexico’s internal disorders, it looks as if most them have disappeared. Petty holdups of elusive bands not if American business men from venturing Mexico City in search of trade. When American busi- shows faith in Mexico's stability, it is time to revise opinions of the Mexicans. he heroes are not all dead, and Wilson might ¢ teers for that job of ambassador to Mone 1%, Firet was erased the Hindenburg line, then the Hohen- rn line, and now the mark is rapidly Wading, i They've begun giving German opera in . Cook-coo! illustrates | APARTMENT day in announcing the return to thin colyum of that renowned author ad venturer detective, Herlock PICTURE Of Herlock Sholmes We have engaged Mr. Sholmen to write for you another of eo wtir ring tales of racy fetvion which have made him the Wallie Keid—yea, the ‘ickford—of the written prose Monday the first installment of hin outspoken novel, “Spad In Spades. will be bared to the eager world | tram ” _——* | Mary Pickford, you might have noticed, got a d thin week. The only thing the pres agents left out Was an interview with Doug fairbanke ” cee Unele John Shell, olde man tn the world, anys he guessed the right answer to thia riddle when he wa but 67 years of age. Can you? 1 often murmur, but never weep: Always tie in bed, but never sleep. My mouth is larger than my head, And much discharges, the never fed. 1 have no feet, yet swiftly rum The more falls I get, move faster on. (You give the answer twice when | you mpeak of it as the uo Grande river.) | eee ANOTHER ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF WETS Spokane bootleggers may be charged with profiteering. A cam of Scotch picked up there bore on each |bettle the warning, “This whisk should be sold at retail for not more than $250 a quart.” Hootieggers asked $10 @ quart for it. eee Which reminds us that Brother | ‘Twies, the life insurancer, reports that the police hadn't found his'n yet. Brother Twies says he keeps his bid In the phonograph BOOKS AND DISEASE LD | It is so hard to find a record an authentic case where a has been reeponsible for the carry ing of a disease that most students of public health incline to the opin fon that booke play little, if any, part in the spread of infection. | ‘The ordinary germs that may be deposited on a book would live enty & abort while, at the most. They are quickly killed by expowure to light and they do not thrive where it in dry Pervons should not turn the pages ot a book by moistening their fin gers in the mouth, for the double reason that they will not only de posit the germs of any direaso they may have, but might transfer any/ germs on the book to their mouths. | Where books have been in the| sick room, but have pot been han) dled by the patient. no special pre jcautions are necessary, becaute |there ie little ponsibility of gern» of the diwease getting in the books except by direct contact Where the books have been han dled, however, it would be wise to fumigate them with formaldehyde | eas, or expose them to the sunlight | Put them out of the way for two| or three months, by which time it may be safely assumed the germs jof the disease will have died. | of; book ANSWERED ney weakness. Their urine con tains a great deal of ammonia What can I do to cure them? | A. You speak of your two little] boys as having kidney weakness, and say that thelr urine contains a great dea! of ammonia. Just what do you mean by that? All urine de-| composes into ammonia if allowed| lto atand: the proportion lof ammonia developed from the urine depends entirely on the amount of urea which the urine contains, and this in turn depends on the amount of food taken, Fin-| ally, there is no relation between moreover, | and are born. Sturdy children—these are wealth” Ruskin called more veins of gold in the rocks. And the shattering fact miss here. tality. And we call ourselves the ened of peoples! litical precedence, while the Representative Towner has attention. 4 You would not call him a bold man, but insane, who would deny that the matter | of absolutely the most importance to any “|| nation is the production of healthy babies roper care of the mothers before they | United States of America is shamefully re- Among 16 important countries 13 show | a more favorable maternal death rate. And six a more favorable infant mor- Our lawmakers are squabbling over po- feed our national lifé are clogged. bill in the National House of Representa- tives (H. R. 10925) which is more vital than any subject worthy of a statesman’s A similar bill is the Sheppard measure in the Senate (3259). These provide “for the public protection of maternity and infancy, and a method of | | co-operatimn between the Government the United States and the several States.” Plain common sense asks why, if the Gov- ernment tells the farmer how to care for hogs, it cannot tell the mother how to HOLS 1.) HINTS Kid gloves can be made t ike new by pressing them with iron, It in not necesmry to starch them. the amount’ of ammor idney weakness It a an is suggested that you are unwisely attempting to your children’s condition, when you should be consulting a qualified) phynician. | diagnose Never throw affay an old iron |fencn, Many of the pieces can be Q I have taken a course of| made into ice-picks | 6," ami now the doctor is giving — mercury. It leaves an awful) Thomas A. Edison haa Invented an taste in my mouth. Will ie burt| electric tron from which the ¢ me? A. You need not worry about the mercury causing any harmful ef-| fect, provided you take it to the directions of a reputable|!ly digested than the ordinary one physician. Many people have the piece kind. mistaken idea that mercury causes! softening of the bones or other harmful effect, when, as a matter of fact, it is the poleon of the dix ease that causes these condition: and not the mercury that ie taken as a cure lnundress is not using it rfing| Perforated pancakes are more eas 2 ’ Do not use tooth paste when put: » ting up wall-paper ‘ eee A seasion of the United Stat ate these days is a good deal like a Lodge meeting eee But, as the Pullman porter re marked, “This in my berth day they affect e.6 ts Q. What ie ward goltre? one? A. Physicians de recognine the condition referred to by the cor respondent. In some forms of thy roid trouble, 10 be sure, the thyroid gland is very little swollen, and yet its functions may be markedly de ranged. It ts posable that thie ts ub . B © Penrose what you refer to when you #peak er ne Dele gengenes of an “inward goitre” The chief| . derangement | heart action and , akness. of specially on and tysomom. A person from guitre should himself under the qualitied physielan. “UNCLE SAM, M. D.,” wit! anewer, tither in thie colume or by mall, questions of general interest retating only to hyeiene, sanitation and the prevention of disrase It will be Linpossibie for him to amawer ques- tions of ® purely personal nature, of | to prescribe for individual disrase, | Addrews: | the cause of an tr How do But, as the farmer remarked when plowing, “I never go to the races or bet on them, but I follow the horses.” eee “No one but a good republican can be nominated,” says Boles Penrose We don't know just what a “ood” re not oe A New York baby was born with two teeth. And if it's « regular up todate kid, with the spirit of the times, they're wisdom teeth ore rinens exertion. suffering at once FiN0®) secretary of Labor Wilson says be of a well neon for America three years of plen ty. Plenty of what? mmisison has of the high {t or not A Masmachuse discovered the prices of shoes. ve the commission dc » word | about a shortage of railroad cars. eee But, as the barber remarked. “Some men may think I am slow, but I claim T can go at a fast clip.” nt say INFORMATION EDITOR, U.S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. 'C, Mothers and Babies What was the! BY DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) bear healthy children. Government Regulation of Railroads and | the League of Nations pale into insignifi- cance beside the need of bringing children into the world strong and plenty. Just now it is bad weather for any ap- propriation by Congress. Everybody is cry- ing retrenchment, and everybody is right. But this bill is the one exception. Congressmen move only under pressure. They await some sign of public demand that mothers and babies be helped. | Write to your Congressman and Senator. Have your Club or Forum take up this issue. Other nations are moving. Shall we stand still? New Zealand is in the lead; for years it! has been the country with the lowest infant mortality, and the pioneer in infant welfare, work, England, in the midst of her colossal weal expenditures, does not hesitate to extend her system of grants in and to local au- thorities for the care and instruction of mothers at their critical time. Her national treasury allots 12 shillings per birth. Com-! | pare that with our proposal to give 25 cents ) the first year, up to $2.00 the seventh, | Australia gives five pounds to every} mother upon the birth of her child. Besides this these countries do much in the way of instruction, _ Is there anything in all the world more! important than Mothers and Babies? the “veins of valuable than is that the most enlight- | springs that introduced a of VOL. 1. SEATTLE, MARCH 6, 1920 properly STATE MEMORIAL PROPOSED em the Universit ington as st for the men and women who made the sacrifice for the nation. No wtate the exservice nupreme memorial men for who died in ery the present are membe gion. The nate the univernity atate neet with the Washington meme Legion LEGION POSTS PASS 8,000 MARK INDIANAPOLIS In the United &t ire 1 In Canada, 1 Eng land, in France, 1 in Mexico, 1 In Panama, 3 in the Ft ines, 1 in Hawai 8 in Cuba New York state, with a total of 854 ports, heads the li 1 c next with To Cheek Officials OMAHA An intelli gence committee to com pile data either indorsed or black linted by the committee The committee will aimply prepare data on the records of affice hold ers 80 far an they concern exeervice men and me went it to the Legion. a turned off automaticaly when te; Mayor and Son Pastor March 6 village of Bidney has been arguing | whether ite fu Battle CHAMPAIGN, 1 cases ba quarantined. cused by Citizens nayor’s Kor rin met and fought and fined. ( Edw cook Here he is in fatigue uni and with a smile on his face, at that | ve ‘The k M. Harris, of Champaign, was Mayor James Epperson of Gaking sides against him ™ | met and fought rested and fined fine later Cc. C. | ™ The mayor was ar paid the Epperson. Mr. Har Spperson in came 4, thankful that © Epperse ons The Bond House is gratuitously uals in Income Tax Statements be filed not which must later than March {Where Safety aasinting individ the preparation of their 15th form GET A MOVE ON YE! j. Gen. Clarence R. former of the 26th head of northeastern department, put himself on K. P., put on blue denims and went t to chop wood for the Mra. and BUTTE CITY AIDS EX-SERVICE MEN BUTTE, Mont—Worla War veterans are guests and proteges of this city and all the organizations within it. diately upon the the first group men from over who stayed what was need. ¢d to put the men back on the status they held before the war. The Ana conda Copper company donated the Florence ho tel, where 500 miners used to make their home, far the use of the former | Yanks. The only badge of admission was the dis- charge paper and a note from the adjutant of the American Legion, for which the veteran got a ] room, board and use of the gymnasium. | Several thousand serv. ice men have been re ceived at this hotel and are = still there. months the allowed each wome Three time man. was com divi = the Why train, anyway, if you know how to swear and shoot craps? The fla didn't give some undertakers enough busi- ness this season, so they're going after the Yank dead in France. Edwards. ‘Oddly enough, lubricant causes this country and Mezico. MEETING Flight Captain P. Ride out, of the Royal Flying ke to the Rain Tuesday eventug riences with the infantry, and 1¢ air service, y a short business ses was held on account of the municipal elections. News of Major Caldwell’s was greeted em thuslastically. MEN OF SECOND GET TOGETHER Men of the Second di- vision are establishing @ Seattle branch of the See ond Division association. Former members of the Second are requested to get in touch with Secre tary Hamilton, 113 19th ave. & His telephone number is Beacon 1646, BE PATIENT It cost a mother $2,000 to bring the body of her Jost soldier son back from France. That and lots of red tape, delay, trouble, worry and disappoint ments. Mrs. Devera was one af election conscienceless ers have made large prot its. The workings of the government were two slow for her. She had to see the body of her be loved one and give him a good resting place, 80 she paid well for ft. Had she waited it would not have cost her a soli tary cent. For the gow ernment is now returning the bodies of our soldier dead at its own expense. The work is slow. Each mourning relative must wait his turn But the lack of expense, of wor- ries and disappointments more than repays the sus pense of waiting. Fhene bon aasist you with your obligation. Nearly two decades ago JOHN E. 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