The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 5, 1920, Page 6

She Seattle Star ‘ 5 his tha, ™ me Mite anise pear te on in the atha, or $9.00 per week tate of Washington, The per month, $4.50 for 6 m Ay carrier, city, 1 innocence.” —Thomas Paine. [ _ Potato Prices dod Potatoes in city markets at seven dolats or more fur nish as striking an evidence of the cost of living as any item in the whole scale of prices. It is but a little while Since they were one-third that price and commission men Say that the present figure overtops anything asked for them since civil war days. Yet it is a striking fact that today’s prices bring forth more than casual mention, while three years ago, when they sold for as high as four dollars, the fact was one of the leading topics of the day and provoked a nation- wide outburst of indignation. There are two reasons for this difference. One is that we have become hardened to skyrocketing prices in the last three years and have few gasps left to bestow on the lowly tuber when it mounts into the precious class. The other is that the shortage of 1917 was shown to be very largely artificial, due to hoarding, and investiga tion of storage warehouses and of farm stocks disclosed great quantities that were being held for higher prices. Today's actual shortage and consequent rise ‘may be traced indirectly to the flurry of three years ago. As a result of that “squeeze,” tens of thousands of families own oe Pots of land about their homes planted potatoes in to be independent of the manipulators on the next crop. Farmers also, anticipating another period of high prices, went in for potatoes more heavily than usual. The met result was a glutted market and low price’. Then came the reverse action. Disappointed and out of money, farmers planted fewer potatoes than usual and the home gardeners turned to ordinarily more costly vegetables, hence a scarcity. Tt is the old law of supply and demand and not manipvu- lation of the market which appears responsible for the it searcity—the same old law that is having its way so many other things.—The Everett Tribune. | 80. Mebbe so. | | - “The 1912 Burglary” | Senator Johnson’s reference to the “burglary of 1912” im connection with certain conditions affecting the 1920, presidential nomination, does not meet with approval in| ‘some quarters, naturally. No matter how guilty a burglar! “}mows himself to be, he is seldom pleased when he is called a@ “crook.” And if a question of ethics is involved and his ‘action is defended as not burglarious, it is even more “Probable that he would resent the imputation of crooked- ness. | So it is small wonder that in this state, where the Aber- convention of 1912 was the forerunner of the split d only at the risk of leaving a bad taste in several and| mouths. It is not even surprising that Senator should be charged here with ungratefulness be-| sooth, “‘so far as can be observed in the public! prints, no one has reproached Senator Johnson for the/ part he took in wrecking the republican party in 1912.” same manner, if you struck a burglar suspect in| should be everlastingly glad that no one rej for wrecking his physical beauty. evidently Senator Johnson does not believe so. Mebbe | ls that if the burglar suspect is wrecked a bit, himself is to blame. | Similarly, the senator may be very strong in the opinion | that not Col. Roosevelt, nor Hiram Johnson, nor Oscar | Strauss, nor Jane Addams, nor Victor Murdock wrecked the republican party in 1912, but the guilty ones may be who are popularly suspected of having committed lary of 1912.” Tf recollection is correct, it seems that Col. Roosevelt re-| ‘ceived the primary votes and delegates where any popular! “expression was had, and that only by political manipulation of a very shady hue was he deprived of the republican nom- ination that year. Is it stretching the imagination to say| that these manipulators—in Seattle, in Aberdeen—and in| Chicago—“wrecked the republican party’? | e Music Festival Seattle is the only city west of Chicago to attempt a/ big festival of music which combines all its schools and produces a chorus of over 2,000, with an orchestra of ap-| proximately 200 pieces. | It is an immense undertaking and one of which the ‘city can well be proud. Over 5,000 beys and girls are to participate in the three performances, the high schools 150 pieces. there has been a steadily growing increase in the interest taken in music thruout the public schools. In one school, where formerly seven children could be found who could yy musical instruments, now 40 practice regularly with ie school orchestra, their sole means of instruction in many cases being the school music teacher. And where formerly a chorus of 50 could be mustered in high school, now the choruses in each high school number approximately 300, with classes being conducted in harmony and sight One of the greatest benefits to be derived from such an event as the May festival is the chance it gives for all the schools to come together in a united effort, forgetting loca! differences and individual school jealousies, as well as a sense of unity and good-feeling fostered in the community, where so many families are brought in touch with one another over an entertainment of common interest. Stretch It That Far J An advertisement, appearing in the Portland News, reads: “Gas piped from the street into your house and meter set by the Gas company free of charge. Come early and avoid the spring rush.” Can you imagine the Seattle Gas company running an ad of this kind? Four more days before Mother’s Day. Atty. Gen. Palmer's territory? “Husbands will disappear,” predicts Evelyn Nesbit. Into the cellar, probably, these arid days. Ben Bye Mall Reger lageaygein Frag Met $9 re es in il le Sik im a oldte hon should “Government, like dress, is the badge of lost| EVERETT TRUE Chicago that year, “the burglary of 1912” can be men-| ° training a chorus of 1,500, with an orchestra of | Since the first May festival of music, three years ago,| Seattle police discover a bum bomb. Trespassing on | % | TM GOING TO INTERRUPT, SIR] You ARG “TRYING TO TELL MEG SOMETHING, AREN'T YOU wec,, 1 DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANY MoRGe} THE BYLK OF YouR TACK 138 PROFANITY —— AND AN AWFUL POOR LING or It AT THAT (Yh At the Profiteeria BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE The proprietor of The Profiteeria talk of high prices is all hysteria. time that I enter his store #, “Well, the next lot will be more rtar or to a quire 1 be higher. And with twenty It ls plain that the next lo “The cost of thread has increased the rent, So prices, of course, go up fifty per cent, And new that the country's entirely dry, It's the watered stock that makes things bigh, And with raw materials getting rawer —A result, of course, of the recent waer— And the cooks all quitting (and you know thas!) Why shouldn't you pay more for a hat? This complaint of prices keeps men eo Ured ‘That even the taxicabs are bired. “Fur conte, because of the luxury tax, Have increased the price of sealing wax. So that everything now that comes tn cane Has to be kept cool by electric tana, And you can't get people back to the land, Since no very few of ‘em have the sand, And the cost of living? Well, maybe it's high, But Sir Oliver Lodge won't let us die! So now im the chance of the careful buyer, For be sure that the next Jot will be higher. “Why, the merchant's profit ts very small; It's the robber jobber getting it all And it isn't the jobber. He cuts no tea For the manufacturer makes the price And the factory barely makes its way, Because of the wage it has to pay And the workman—why, a hundred per cent Of bis income goes for food and rent So you see that the clamour is all hysteria, And you'd better buy now—at The Profiteeria* (Copyright, 1920, N. BE A) EDITORIALS — FEATURES THAT'S wHay r am? ° —_ — — ae | WE'LL SAY SO } The fair prie mittee mayn the housewives have buying up all the sugar and hoarding it in their homes. THE HO (Copyright, 1926, The medical profession is simply the best jintelligence of the race applied to the sub- | We are glad to know that some ject of health. | bodyghas been able to buy sugar in| It is a@ommon sense addressed to physical larger than two-pound packages | welfare. | It is fact versus hocus-pocus; truth versu noonday fiction; experience versus fancy; We are glad to hear it We knew if the fair price com mittee had anything to say about it they would blame it on the house wife versus twilight. | ie te tthe te na coed noth| At least that is what it ought to be, shockingly sugested a short time| Strives to be. That is its ideal, It does not ago attain it, of course; for an ideal attained is | Of course not no longer an ideal But now that we know the houne We criticise regular doctors, and pooh- | wives have the sugar boarded tn : stensions » get sic’ | tee bales Geel eu eerie pooh their pretensions (until we get sick) about one thing just as we cry out against legislators, gov- | We will quit worrying about how|@rnors, and all others who have public re- they are Koing to get sugar to can| Sponsibilities, because that is our favorite fruit thie tall |American indoor sport. We don’t mean it. he Nl have to do ts go up 7 ‘ ei A egg yon orf | The hospital is the physician's workshop. » trick | That is all it is. It is merely a place where jhe can work to best advantage, as a me- e|chanic can work better in his shop with all | eae prices. &* his tools about him, and a cook can produce | It's all no eaay, when you find out| better meals in her kitchen than over a from the fair price committee! jcamp, fire. Tan 't it? | If it is worth while having a medical pro- omen iapee er i nae: jfession at all it is worth while having a| OUR HERO place where they can do their best. 4 ate “Aedes | That means that a city's hospitals are the | | Measure of the city’s intelligent regard 100-pound mack of sugar and the will be done. they won't have to buy one day rain stick “flee, my dear,” he exolal mph, “here ie my um are forever accusing me ot somewhere.” The requirements You, Thaddeus.” ts the anmwer, ‘he practical produc but you had no umbrella when you |™Mltary milk suppl wont away.” pler than is ral | SANITARY MILK necessary forjof serving. Milk of a clean,| poured from the much sim | be returned to it. 4. In @ 0's wing WRITE, YOUR OWN TITLE seen eye nt the Mre. Cynthia Hartshorn, of Barre. er whieh rwine steril ria into t has appealed courte for ized containers, efficient retrigera tlon and proper pasteurization, These solutely ensential any one, under in absolutety Keep the refrig cans « seven things are a and the omin ordinary ruinous to the production of a high grade product. | Huy only the best milk obtainable. | 1t ts cheapest in the long run. Buy only bottled milk, Dtpped/ hot water. much when and snores too much when she’ asleep She says one morning she woke up and found that her husband had} pasted @ tendollar bill across her | water and salsoda, condi comes less palatal emptied by rinsin; mouth. ‘That made her angry. If the |tive, and aske if there's any other | dimoase. | the empty bottles |Rurband who would waste a perfectly | good tendollar william that way. overs |im the = refrigerator | Bacteria multiply rapidly in milk THANK HEAVENS! [which stands in the «un or other | No man ts quite as perfect as he| warm place, and euch milk will sour | except milk. |is when his wife is telling it to the | quickly. Remember that nor half as bad as when | Return empty tn the refrigerator until the moment | foods obtainable, B - BY DK. FRANK CRANE | miseries of their fellows, do not help hospitals. The faddists, monomaniacs, religio-phi- | studied what the wisest have learned before Conducted Under Direction of Dr. Rupert Blue, U. 8. Public Health Service Keep the bottle covered with al from exceasive sweating are cone r cap or an inverted tumbler, to| cerned, these can be overcome by trance of Mies and/| frequent bathing. y carry dangerous|™me your mame and address, I will washing with scalding | ly absorbs unpleasant odors and be- Wash milk bottles as soon as warm water and soap and then with Mr. Hartshorn says she's too renst-| milk Is often dirty and may spread | disease in your house always boil Take the milk Into the house as|them to the milkman except under | |ncon as it in delivered, and place it|the conditions which the health de-| Immediately. | partment may prescribe. | and never use them for anything Keep mitk in the ortginal bottle|erly cared for, is one of the best On the Issue of mericanism Shere Can Be No Compromise SPITAL by Frank Crane) for its life. The enemies of the hospital are selfishe callous indifference, ignorance, and uperstition. The peanut-souled citizen who is well and does not want to disturb his peace by think- ing about sickness, will not assist the hospital. The fakers, frauds, patent-medicine graft- ers, and other vultures that profit on the ness, osophie cranks, and all those who put their peculiar superstitious obsession above their reason, do not favor hospitals. But every physician who has carefully prepared himself for his life work, who has t him, who has learned at the feet of the most_ skillful, who has sworn loyalty to truth and seeks honestly to practice his art im” a way to be of the most benefit to men, every physician in fine that wants to do his best, wants a hospital, for that is the best place in which to do it. And an intelligent and sane community wants a hospital because it wants those who are set apart to care for its health, te do good work, the best possible work, under the best possible conditions. for growing children. It is nourists 4 t ing, digestible and usually econombe ~ f |eal. | é | To repeat: KEEP MILK CLEAN COVERED AND COLD, 5 > Hy « | Q Please advise how I can pres j vent an excess of sweating of the body and face during the summer A. The sweat glands constitute an important means of ridding the | body of waste material, and it ts which has been | undesirable, therefore, to mck to bottle should not) prevent free action of the sweat | glands. So far as disagreeable odors If you will send milk. jbe glad to send you a booklet en= titled “The Road to Health,” which will probably be of service to you. eee “UNCLE SAM, M. 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