The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 10, 1920, Page 6

She Seattle Star Y he ne 2 months, By, Mall gut of tty. M0 Pee ae ghd in. the te ef Washingt aide the Tbe per month, $4.60 for 6 months, or per year. My carrier, elty, fe per As an alternative to the service charge of 25 cents for residence and commercial lighting, it is proposed, in some quarters, to raise the minimum rate from 50 cents to 75 cents a month. : In the first place, such a raise would, be inadequate for the apparent needs of the lighting “department, as revealed to the city council and the public. And, in the second place, it would be most unjust to the small house-| holder, for he alone would have to bear the burden of increase while the rest of the community escaped. : It is only the family with small means that uses the min mum éf electricity. Everybody else uses more than the minimum. If the minimum charge is increased, it is obvious that the small home alone is taxed. And, later, if it should prove that this increase was not sufficient to raise the needed funds, the minimum would have to be raised again—and always it would be the small who would f° ErRatee, like ied should be imposed with the idea that those best able should pay. It would be fairer, all around, if the original draft of the bill introduced by the utilities tommittee is adopted. This provides a service charge of 25 cents to be paid by EVERY consumer, not merely the little fellow. What's the matter with the Seattle teachers, anyway? Pretty soon they'll want as much as janitors and window washers and domestics! [ San Remo Three of the four great powers represented at San Remo—Britain, Italy and Japan—have mcr determined parts of the peace treaty are unworkable. = are anand: to recognize that all the terms of the treaty cannot be carried out literally if, Europe is to live as an economic whole. 1 ; Only France is holding out for a strict, literal enforce- ment of the terms. The treaty means more to France than it does to any of the other allies. France desires to see Germany economically and militarily prostrate. Her statesmen believe, or say they believe, that France in the future is menaced by possible German aggression if Ger- many is permitted to live otherwise than as the bond- servant of the rest of Europe. France is determined that if Germany cannot or will not carry out the peace terms Germany shall pay by having the Rhine provinces an- to France. : . with this contingency in view that Millerand con- THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, MAY 10, 1920. We casually observe that we have in our midst a chap named Harry | Lewe. But what if it is Marry? see cow (As office boy.) A cow, like all humans, likes to hit the hay all the time, Milk ts said to bé dertved from cows, but the milkman brings ours, A cow never chews the mg; she chews the joud, A cow is known by three |names—cow, steak and bull, the lat ter being the most frequent, and ‘oak the hardest to get. There may be a cow heaven for all we know, and she ought to be on the milky way, Yours happily, Frank. Saree | | Woe suspect Frank has been read ing the funny papers, but at any rate his definition is not as old as |the yarn related by Jack Schiffer, |the tirelens baseball booster and dis usted fan, who says Two farmers met other. Waal, didju get whatchu val‘lated when you sold yer old eray mare’ And the other responded One asked the “Wa'al, I didn’t get as much as 1 eal'lated I would; but then | scarcely caplated I woul.” eee Sing Sing’s waren mays shoes oan be made in that pginon for $4.60 a pair, We'll gtW $4.60 to any man willing to wear a pair, cee A Massachusetts artist is asking for divorce. His wife was formerly his model, thus showing a model in not always model. ary Since Chad Ballard, city detective, fot a oulja board to help him run down pickpockets, burglars, porch climbers and their loot, affairs tn the celestial regions have been notice ably changed, A friend of Chad's pena this ode The ghestty tended so obstinately at San Remo for the right of any pe. ‘one of the allies (meaning France) to enforce the treaty terms individually. Britain, supported by Italy and Japan, that only the allies in unison shall have that power. To give it to France, thinks Lloyd George, will be quivalent to allowing the French government to decide for itself when Germany has failed and to take action, as she did in occupying Frankfort and the other German cities, on her initiative. Ti tcance’s allies are not particularly anxious to see France the dominant power on the continent of Europe. at San Remo is merely a continuation of the tie struggle in Europe. ‘ies — ion eas it have been different if the United States had ratified and accepted its part of the responsibility and power? You can’t tell from the label how strong a kick a drink may have. And even the announced light raise may be heavy enough. | For Women Only Three women out of every five, five out of every five who are trying to raise children, are enraged over the high cost of footwear, and we may yet see a committee for wearing Moccasins as well as overalls. Because the government litterly fails to squelch the shoe iteering and because some 15,000,000 women are going have a chance to vote for president and some 10,000,000 ’ for congressmen, we will now give a few figures. The total of cattle in this country now is 68,132,000, as 56,700,000 in 1914. Some increase in leather possi- ities, sure enough.’ In the seven months ending with January, 1920, we im- ported 545,000,000 pounds of hides, as against 210,000,000 during the same months of the previous year. luch leather from abroad, sure enough. But— In 1919 we exported 21,354,537 pairs of boots and shoes, mostly to Canada, Latin America and the Orient, as against 9,925,586 pairs in 1914. Listen with both ears! shoes sold abroad, in January last, was $3.77, men’s shoes|| Thus, we have tons and tons more of leather than ever and are making millions and millions more of shoes than ever but the shoes are going abroad at $3.77 and $4.65. As herein before remarked, a man-run government mis- erably fails to correct the condition. Will some lady kindly write in what a woman-run government would do under the circumstances? There was a string of gubernatorial candidates until a few days ago. Now there is a Stringer, too. Staring Us in the Face | } It’s getting to be something awful! Formerly you could buy a wife, in Central Africa, for four spearheads, or four cows. It now takes eight spear- heads, or eight cows, and the real fat and black wives cost More, at that. And just look-at the poor leaders of fashion in Paris! ‘The ladies have cut the quantity of clothes to three ounces in weight, while the king of French fashion wears knee pants and women’s stockings. . Our national overalls campaign isn’t going to reach. We've got to get down to a sheet with three holes in it. The more employers see of the I. W. W., the more they think of the A. F. L. “Devil of Devils” : ; If you ever feel yourself getting sick at heart, and the becoming blacker and blacker, and you say: “I have not a friend in all the world!”—stop and think. If you are not loved by anyone, maybe you are not loving anyone. You cannot receive unless you give. It is a give- and-take Peas pe You cannot be greedy and receive, ive, ive—never giving anything in return—unless to cut yourself off from your fi > The devil of devils in these days is the “devil of selfish- must be killed—‘“deader’n a doornail”—if the The average price of women’s proky hamane ight when the twilight fades Get oat their gol-darned onijas And summen the weary shades. “They oak as foolish questions, And they ren as to and fre, Te find some bracelet Or to locate stolen dough. | | | | “What shall we do, dear brethren? Shall we heed those would-be peych- Just ignere them?" And the spirits hollered, “Strike!” eee A Brooklyn man announces he is the original overall-club man. We |should not be surprised if somebody were to come forward with the claim that he is the original rocked-the- | boat, blew-out-the-gas or didn’t-know- it-was-loaded man. WASTE “By ROGER W. BABSON World-Famous Statistician If you had $24 I do not think you'd throw two or three of them away just for the fun of seeing | them go. | Neither do I think you would |spend five of those dollars for a | necktie or a pair of socks that was | plainly marked “two dollars.” * If you saw any one else doing either of these things you'd say at once that he was a bit balmy and | you would begin watching for fur ther developments. But let's have another look before we condemn the fool who would throw dollars about, Each of us draws 24 hours every day from our precious supply of time. We usually throw two or three away and spend another two for something that need only cost an hour. It is a wicked waste, more wicked than a waste of money, for a man ca add many dollars to bis mate- rial wealth while his total supply of time is not only limited but stead- ily diminishing . Let us remember that we all have just as many hours each day as John D. Rockefeller, Charles Schwab or any other mas ’ defined by Frank, The Star's | | y we. Ca og | Both are going barefoot now. | Brother Sheep dectines to eat —By CONDO HAN WALKING ALONG ON WOE WALKS. —_ ( re, ~ tp ——— THINKS oF SOMCTHING HG FORGOT AND TURNS Back SUDDENLY, = << SS} obtained their object and se-| WHAT A STRANGE PreeLinGc— Dr. Crane Says-- = HOW FAR* ARE WE FROM STARVATION? !| The other day the railway | men struck and traffic in |New York City was par- | alyzed, The longshoremen, who handle shipping, have several | times seriously interfered |with the flow of goods into and out of the country. | Teamsters have likewise refused to haul food products and other freight until their demands for, more pay were | met, | All of these efforts have |got just so far and failed, either because the strikers ‘cured a raise in wages, or because the strike was broken | or compromised. It is noticeable, however, | On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise | In the Editor’s Mail ALIEN CAR MEN? | mhaken Editor The Star I have read| few me your paper, The Star, and at all| ries times it has fought for American: | hasty t Jarn. }he rushes on a mad run, throwing J Now here is the case in a nut| his fishing boots and tackle into che § shell: The exact number of foreign and away he goes to mest as & ers holding positions on the street} many human friends as his car will & jears of this city, I do not hold, and he returns just in time te but there are quite a few I 1 the same wild rush to get that have uniform « have dinner papers, nor h rry for his station agains | intentions of becoming « hildren are of school ag@ | ing out their first papers family along. | Why are they still employed by clorious time y in the week. When his turn comes to be on duty during tha day he has his «evenings at home, and his family jes and movies od times. An a burdened with taxes o knowing how much ti have when ‘off duty, I sine cerely hope Mayor Caldwell will stay by hin decision and consider the taxe Md | payers this time E MRS. A. BRANDON, § 16 foundation during the nts he is home, He his old clothes, of breakfast, dow car oe: | the city government, while red-blood Jed Americans who fought for their country in blue and khaki are al lowed to go begging for honest work I also understand that the uni jis sticking up them and tryt |to bring pressure to bear to ke }them on the jab | If the Street Car Men's Union is doing this, there ts something rotten already somewhere, either with the union | the civil service or city hall | A TAXPAYER. | FIREMAN HAS TIME 1 Féitor The Star: Afte v4 The Star about givin one day off in Jlive like white men Inst birds,” I cannot resist telling you how utterly needless any extra holl day seems from the viewpoint of a! person living in the same house with | WHY THE NESBIT ARTICLE Star: Severat of my having informed me. r had been improved” late, I bought a copy On the front page £ found an article on “marriage” by one Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Clifford. Since when have you found it nem that each succeeding wave of | strikes goes a little further. | | Strikes are more successful,| | Hetiing bodies come a little nearer to absolute power each | How about it, when the)nouse vefore #:20 every morning | present trend is carried to its| having firet st fireman hus mand in a n time for so and all-rou man neighbor. this fireman sleeps at the fire nights, he usually has a fairly good | essary to print the opinions of the demi-monde on the sacred institution, of marriage? Yours truly, H. C. KIMPTON. — wt Every family in Buenos Aires is have the privilege of hearing at least) ach season free of charge! municipal opera house ted under the supervision, one opera at the logical end? Suppose long-| amse for his car }shoremen, roustabouts, team-) aes |sters, switchmen, freight|just the right nourishment, handlers, and all who have| Would die. The great multi- Meanwhile kaisers and the labor the employer _J| to do with the actual trans- Conducted Under Direction of Dr. Rupert Biue, U. & Public Health Bervice PINK Pink eye i# an acute inflamma) tion of the membrane lining the eye ball and eyelids. In other words it| is’ a form of conjunctivitis. | It begins with « slight itching of | the eye. On the morning of the nec ond day the margins of the lids are | coarse tn two or three weeks, but it) stuck together by a yellowish gray secretion. ‘There is a burning ser sation in the Ids, but interference with vision is alight. Toward eve —_——————_____. _ REVOLT! * By EDMUND VANCE COOKE Mister Bull and Sister Cow Thomas and Tabitha Cat Very seldom wear a hat Every sort of butcher«meat. William Goat goes all unsheared | And un-barbered of his beard Jenny Wren says not one cent | Will she pay of tnereased rent Madame Robin boasts, ‘tin maid, | That her husband is a Red. Mother Earth's spring sult is made| Patched with green of every shade Even Heaven has heard the call— Seo its bright Diue over all! (Copyright, 1920, N. EK. A) EYE ning t@ discharge increases and the discomfort is more marked. The height of the disease ix usu- ally reached on the third ar fourth day, If simple cleanliness is ob- Served the disease usually runs its may last for six months if no treat ment la employed. In all cases of pink eye It is tm- portant to consult a good doctor at once, for some forms of conjuncts vitie, mistaken for simple “pink eye.” are really highly dangerous and may lead to blindness, canes of “pink eye” or other forma of conjuncttvitia care mbould be taken not to allow the din charge to get on tawels, napkins or other articles which might be the means of transferring the disease to others. Scrupuloun cleaniiness te of the ut most importance, Eye drops or eye In all | washes should nat be used unless prescribed by a phynictan. “UNCLE SAM, M. D.." will anewer, [rome : INFORMATION EDITOR, UL 8. Public Health Services, Washington, D.C. A Job For Your Idle Money Idle Money, Like Idle Folk, is Very Apt to Habe Bad Luck. If you have only a Dollar'a week to spare put it to work where it will enjoy absolute Safety and at the same time bring Home substantial divi- dends at regular intervals. WE EMPLOY YOUR SAVINGS by investing them in City,’ State and Government Bonds and in First Mortgages on Improved Property, _ always under Strict State Supervision. Resources Now Over Four Million Dollars Puget Sound Savings & Loan Association Where Pike Street Crosses 3rd The Largest Mutual Sevings @ Loan Association tn the Stete of Washington. , portation of the necessities fectly ‘organized that, at the ukase of the grand boss, they all quit work at a prearranged hour, refuse to arbitrate, and are able to prevent strike- breakers from taking their places? Within a few days—how long?—the swarming popula- tion of a great city, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, any city, would be without food. | Babies, with their milk sup- ply cut off, would be the first class to succumb. Invalids, whose hold on life is preca- rious and dependent upon of life are eventually so per-| | tude of the poor, who mostly|czars would be busy at re« live from hand to mouth,|crimination, each blaming the who have no well-stored lar-| other. |ders, and cannot exist three} The government, which has |days away from the grocery! shown itself utterly unable ta § and meat market, would per-;cope with labor troubles, ish like flies. would stand agape and help- The well-to-do, of course,|less by. |would be the least affected.| How long would it take |They can always go some-jfor the mad egotists ruling | where else. the two armies Capital nad | The majority of the people,| Labor to destroy the Public, anchored by lack of means|the source of both their in- | to the locality in which they | comes? \live, finding the bakery, meat} How far are we from si jshop and market empty,| vation? would break out in hunger| And must we tear do | riots, pestilence would appear, | our civilization before we get. }and mad ideas rage as pesti-|sense enough to GET TOs \lential as microbes. 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