The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 29, 1920, Page 6

Newspaper Fn- terpricn = Asan. and United . bbe month; 8 Press Garvien | 7 “oll oot of city, all in the tate of Washington, 14.50 for € montha of 89. The Seattle Star mentha, 01.50; ¢ montha, 92.18; year, Oatetde of the stata The par month, per year, By carrier, city, 130 per week. Newspaper Cubs Publish Star Today University Journalists Are on the Job Jasuing The Star today is a special editorial staff recruited trom The University of Wash: ington Daily and the University of Washington School of Journaliem, Managing Editor City Editor Telegraph Editor News Editor . Editorials Copyreaders istants — Steele Lindsay Margaret Lesser, Sport Bxitor Assivtante—James Grant, Cartoonists “We'tt Say So"....... “As It Seems To Me” Dramatics Society Editor .....- Cynthia Grey Answers Childhood Story Markets eee Special Writer Reporters Again the Profiteers i Dorothy Harold Marqut “Xssistante—Alice Frein, Patricia Maloney. It Includes the following George Pierrot Mark Haas Byron Christian Wiliam Verran Mitchell Charniey Chief, Mitchell Charnley Black Pinkerton, Clyde Duna. ¥ Chapin Cofins Clarence Coleman sssssWayne Doty, Ralph Maurice Holcomb . Rox Reynolds é . Lew Greene . Cartotta Eliott, Katherine Kief, Marie Broulette seeeeessRvelyn Johnson Myra Hoseack Louise Cleland Milton Malakoft Carotine Moore w ‘anda von ‘Kettler, Doris Noble, Max Miller, Margery Lindsay, Stanley Orne | Nobedy knows where actual blame for present high \ prices should be laid. The manufacturer puts it at the door of labor, Labor promptly returns the t. Jobbers and retailers are similarly reciprocal in their accusations. Recent figures, pulr Uehed by investigators for the government and for abor unions, however, permit formation of @ definite the last three years the American people have profits every dollar's worth of stock companies and all corporations in the industry,” asserts Basil M. Manly, +n investigator at Washington. This he explaina, that if the government all eewential industries from the begin war, it would have sufficient profit to dollar's worth of capital stock, and possession of practically every “ex plant tn the country. Profiteering indicated by this, even if not proved. Tauck, consulting economist in behalf of brotherhoods, recently presented to the rall- labor board startling figures indicative of Profits increased enormously beled ints out. Large concerns, previously athe rich 10 per cent profity demanded 35 per cent during the war. His report further that for the four years, 1916-1919, corporate cost each family of five in the United States ; that the fron, steel and coal industries made 000, of net profit in three war years in of the prewar average; that this excess of cost each family of five $240 a year; and that @isclosures he made do not reveal completely the rporate profiteering. due to bookkeepers’ covering up. he concludes, ‘z on such @ scale as to menace the damning figures to prove his contention his report. Profits of practically every manufacturing Industry range from 25 to cent larger than in prewar days, when average man could live comfortably. Everything from Bhoea to ships comes under the indictment. Altho some critics disagree with Mr. Lauck, assert ing that scarcity of commodities and other causes are to Blame for present prices, his evidence Is con- vinetng. ‘That causes other than the greed of Me business contribute to the h. c. L, however, there can be little doubt. According to statements made public by Went. ave. commission men, public market stalls in Seattle are making 200 to 500 per cent profit on guch staples as onions, cabbages, and carrots. It has been common practice to indict only the cor- Porations as the profiteers. The “little fellows,” apparently, are just as guilty, and their overcharges AFL We ie HE | tt zi LP s s t till fl zits ! Jess. It sounds well enough to advise boycotting and economy. but even the most resentful must live. Consequently, every such one helps swell the overflowing coffers. Mr. Palmer has declared war on the profitesr. Undoubtedty he means well. Prices have begun to fall somewhat in a few lines—mainly due, however, ne feels, to other causes than Mr. Palmer's efforts. | But prices are still beyond, reason. The public is still paying the profiteers their absurd profits, and suffering while it pays. What it wants is results, not continued verbal abuse of the naughty profiteern. If it does not get such results, get them promptly, congress, the present administration, and prating poll- ticlans generally may expect to hear from it in no uncertain voice at the November elections. The School of Journalism might invite The Star staff to come to the University of Washington and edit The University Daily. ‘The babies of the nation wil no longer be re quired to live on milk that is half water! Dealers in ft will no longer be able to make two quarts grow ‘where one stood before! Such perfidy cannot go undetected any more. Dr. Julius Hortvet, chief chemist of the Minnesota flood and dairy department, haa invented a ther ometer—or milkometer—that tells at a glance the Presence of superfluous H2-O. ‘Think how simple it will be. When the mitkman @elivery the morning milk at the back door, the Bousewife has merely to dip her thermometer in the of the bottle to know the whole truth. " she may say, “this quart has .017 liters of ‘water in it. My baby cannot thrive on such milk.” And the milkman, shamefacedly, will have to admit he has mixed the product of his dairy with that of the farm pump. Or perhaps this milkometer may be made a basis for determining price. Using her Hortvet ther- Mmometer as a guide, the lady of the house may pay ome price for pure milk and another for ait, and-balf. The uses of such an instrument are incalculable. Dr. Hortvet might well busy himself on a few similar apparatuses. Something to discover the amount of brown paper in corn flakes would be Much appreciated. A pocket gasolinometer to test the quality of the gas at various filling stations would Make some man a fortune. _A similar instrument to test the percentage of Water in corporation stocks, or gas in political m@peeches and platforms,gor lies in oll field booms and lovers’ propemnls, or bluff in presidential candi dates and poker players would be a boon to man- kind. Dr. Hortvet's field is unlimited. May he live long and invent frequently. _ The filibuster on the soldier bonus bill The United States may go hungry next winter if present farm labor conditions do not change rad: teally and immediately. This ts the dictum of authorities on farm and agricultural subjects who have ‘studied the farmer's situation with growing alarm. In spite of the drop in price of clothing and other commodities, food stuffs will continue their present rise, it ia said. Famine prices and a grave shortage of farm products are predicted. The chief cause for such conditions t» the exodus ot farm laborers from the country to the city, where sky-high wages and short hours outshine the at tractions of rural life. “Hands” simply will not stay in the country, say farmern, unless wages are offered them that completely destroy whatever small profite might be made by the landowner. As an illustration, a Missouri farmer tells of an ex perience in Karwms City, where he was trying to grt two men. “In front of the movie at an after noon matinee," he says, “were probably 40 husky youths waiting for the doors to open. Yet not one of them, tho many were out of employment, would work on a farm.” ‘This is typical of any number of experiences. That the fear for next winter's food mupply is not an idle one ts testified by plenty of statintics Carl Williams, editor of the Oklahoma Farmer Stockman, tella us that 12,000,000 acres lens of wheat were plasted in the fall of 1919 thay in the fall of 1918, and that ax much as 13,000,000 acres will be left unplanted this spring on account of late seasonal conditions and no labor. Here in an enth mated decrease of 250,000,000 bushels of wheat in the United States alone as compared with @ year ag. Foreign reports confirm the prospect of a world shortage of wheat. “The average city man does not realize what ts coming to him within the next year,” writes H. W. Collingwood of the Rural New Yorker. “Next winter there will be lem food in the country than at any time during the war unlean we have the most | favorable season and better conditions of farming. Our reports there are all one way. Farmers are not hirtng labor largely, solely becaune they are abso- tutely unable to ottain help.” The supply of farm labor in the United States thin year, the Buread of Crop Estimates reporta, is only 72 per cent of nor. mal, whereas the demand ie 63 per cent above normal No keen perception ts necammry to discover what these disturbing predictions may mean. If steps are not taken to relieve the shortage of farm labor, the United States and all on it for grain, for fruits, for meat, will suffer desperately next winter. It will be more than mere high prices, altho they will be high and injurious enough. The food will be absolutely unobtainable. It will not have been produced. Perhaps the increasing immigration and decreasing emigration may help solve the problem. If the 200,000 foreigners entering America’s shores within the next four months are routed directly to the great fields of the Middle West instead of being al lowed to congreeate in dirty, unhealthy slums of the large Eastern cities, their work may prove to te the preservation of next year's food crops. This, however, is only one solution, and one of the most diffieult to effect. The immediate problem is to get labor on the farms, labor of all kinds, The men who have left the farms for the city are the ones who will suffer most if they do not go back this summer. It ts all right for us to talk about the other fellow taking up farm work—all right, except for the fact that such an attitude will not solve the problem. The farm problem just now in one for each of us to consider, Labor there this summer may be the salvation of the United States, even of the world. Apparently there is a difference of opinion on the amount of $candal in the $trect-car deal, Not satisfied with a Mberal award in a breach of contract case, a San Francisco broker recently de manded a new trial. He got it, and the jury de- cided he was not entitled to anything. The jury's action might almost be regarded as the hand of justice dealing retribution to the man who always wants more. These “gimme more” clans— never satisfied with what they have, forever schem- ing and yearning for further gain—are a kind that live on, never dying, never failing. That the San Francisco broker shouki be so dealt with seems providential. However that may be, our ageold unquenchable desire for money, for fame, for glory, is responsible for much that is unpleasant in our workaday—and non-workaday——world. If it were not for greed, for undeserved, unnecessary profits, there would be no profiteering today. If Germany bad not laid Breedy eyes on “Mittel Europa,” the greatest war in history might have been averted. If the California broker had not asked for an increased award, he would have been well off with the first court decision. As it is, be has nothing. What a world it would be if greed were a for. gotten vice! How smoothly things might be gliding, instead of tossing on a nea of high prices and in. dustrial troubles! And how easy It would be for every man of us to pledge himself not to allow greed to govern his actions, as it has been doing for so many. How easy and how worth while! The internal revenue department is hold- ing 200 tons of butter, said to be adulterated, Somebody's fat is under fire. Villa is battling in the hills, says a head- line. He seems to be in the air also. E the countries depending Written Today by Rex Reynolds Hitehcock mayne Wood backers pent $35,000 to carry New Jersey Li'l old Jersey has a way of demand ing high figures—even in likker per centage. | eee “Kolchak Shot by Officer,” says |headling Well, that settion that point, Woe thought it was a town. see 2 | St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland “Pumyfoot" Johnson vows he'll do the same thing for England | eee | And now Carranza has destroyed all Mextoan precedent. He wan re ported dead and date—he has stayed dead. to OWLISH OSWALD SAYS It's not so. The modern girl dors know something about housckenping. | She knows it should be kept as dark) as pomible the evening the young | }man calls, | eee |. Wonder tf the author of “give us! this day our daily bread” knew any thing about bakery strikes and low | wages. j eee | According to the newn sheet, |“Crowds jam into Spokane store for And that’s about the m wo've been getting it up. see | It's easy enough to be cheerful | When | | | lS-cent sugar.” only kind of jsinee Sugar | |_ With your timepiece in soak |To pay for a hungry dame’s dinner? eee ‘Tis averred that married men are the Salt of the earth. Mayoe so, But it's the bachelors who furnish the | Pepper. oe MERELY WAITING Most every day we eagerly perune the papers and find that jitneys soon Will lone their place upon the streets But it moms that evermore we grab that same old door and scuff up our new shoes eee A Indy told us she passed a windy corner today, where a policeman left his sign at X for 16 minutes. eee Grandmother Had Three R's: Readin’ "Ritin’ Hithenethe | Granddaughter Also Has Three RB Rich coe “Money makes the world |‘round?" No monopoly there acquaint with moonshine that’s got the mume power. eee Soap manufacturers advance Gen Wood a half-million berries Which | may portend either a Clean campaign lor BUppery-going. ar no We're whisky OMAR JUNIOR And then my face lit ep—I was correct; The Democrats had Bryan on their uaa. eee Contrary to former notions, It's a popular woman nowadays who can drive & man to drink. eee you couldn't see thru it, So she| threw it away. . Now “Pusryfoot” goes to Denver To talk on July four. The town is dry; the alr t» dry; ow can he ask for more? | c+. | They way Job had quite a supply of patience. And he kept it because in thone days co-eds didn't block the [traffic with that arminarm forma tion, eee Gratia advice: If you would keep |your golfer friend, don't call him “old topper.” | cee | Wonder if the workineman dtverts jhis mind from the driving of his |twinsix Jong enough to think of | those days when unreasonable wo- men expected him to get up and give them hin seat in the street car? ee THOSE PLUTOCRATS Wives of rich men oft remind us As we look up from our toil, | That they all don’t tote Refinement Tho they*ve made their pile in Oil oe |she figures the interest on that pan of potatoes Mrs. Smith borrowed two winters ago, and didn't pay back. vee CARBON COPTES “I would be so much obliged if you'd take care of little Horatio this afternoon, I must attend to that shopping.” cee Fiyen if the Japa do buy Ah, well. DR. WILLIAM EVANS Will Deliver a Sermon Sunday Morning, Entitled FACING DEATH In the afternoon, at 3 o'clock, he will deliver a popular lecture on the mubject— Where Are Our Departed Loved Ones? In the evening he will discuss the subject— Could Christ Really Come Today? Goop Music A Cordial Welcome to All FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring freak So Frask Crane THE DEAD HAND I don't ask others to follow me but I wish to tate some radical con clusions which reason and experi [lence have brought me, As you think and think of things, some {times you see bottom, you feel that you have found ultimate rock, One of these bottom and rock truths that for the last few years has mtendily rining from obscurity taking form and substance in my mind in thin, allowing, of course, a ertain of error alloy to be found | generalization: “That all except that of the ntate itself, is wrong.” There may, as I nay, be error in this statement, but, so far as I have |been able up to the present time to |follow the theory into its particular |bearings, I found no place |where it breaks down THE VALUE OF MILK Milk is the only food that contains practically ail the requisites for mus cle and bene building and energy © production, together with other eon stituents which are absolutely eanen- trial for the efficient development of the child. Lime is one of these, and milk in by all means the most ef. clent and economical way by which | lime can be supplied to the body, Children need lime to build bones and adults need it to keep their bones in good condition. Where milk does not enter into the diet there is usu- ally a deficiency in lime, For muscle building milk ts quite as good as meat and is much more economical Skim milk and buttermilk contain |all the nutritive properties of the whole milk, with the exception of the — | fat. That is, they contain all the | animal proteins that the whole milk contains, and milk protein ts the mont valuable form of protein food we possess. Milk, with cereals or — with bread, constitutes, not only a” pleasing combination, but these com. binations in themselves make ® per | tect food. ‘ If the milk, even wit milfic, chances to sour, use it to make cot- — tage cheese. One pound of cheese is equivalent in value to 1% pounds of beet. . been and every endowment have Of course, we exclude any consid emiion ag to whether or not it is Practical to abolish endowments, for no reasoning can be honest that is |tainted with any consideration of | | usefulness or expediency. When we ‘think we must ask only one ques. tion, what is true? It is only when we do that we ask: What is pos | sible? Pure reason, therefore (and that | always means in the end the firmest |Justion and the kindest humanity), |it seems to me, strikes right at the root of the question, and demands that no man have the right to con. trol money or property of any kind after he is dead This would abolish, first, inherit ance. All your economics, your cap- [ital and labor wrangles, and your other efforts to bring about any semblance of justice among men, are mere seratchings on the surface. The central, fundamental, and root in- | Justice is for the one child to be born into the world to privilege, of any money kind. The only answer to Q Is there any way tn whten can tell whether or not he has worm’? Are there doctors who im such cases; if so, how cam I fi A. An examination of the will usually show whether has a tapeworm or not; especially the examination is made with the ai of a microscope. Every quail sician is able to prescribe t for this condition. If you fear 4 have a tapeworm, go at once to your” nape" ett a 2 MATRIMONY Your wife thinks that you are a leader of men And if she could get you to speak, Or could even induce you to handle a pen, You'd be famous inside of a week. * And if you were the government, things would be run In a much betyer way than Some Others have done! And these are the reasons (I think you'll concur) The rock-bottom reasons you're married to her. Brown's wife thinks he's quite an Adonis tn looks, (You can hear his bones knock at the knees) And he's wiser than all of the wisdom of books, Or doctors of ancient dearees. As & matter of fact, which ie patent to us, Brown's @ drab of a dub and a commonplace cuss, | thin that seems of weight ts that it | will take away the motive of energy from men, because now men work for ther children, To which the reply is, that to work wo that one's children may have an unearned (by themselves) advantage over other children ts an unsound }and unrighteous motive. It is a var- |iation of personal egoiam. It is antialtruistic, hence immoral. The/ very basis of any true state is that each child born shall have an equal chance with every other child It may be visionary and millennial and all that, but it’s true, and it makes | no difference to a truth whether it vise you. rational | family physician and have him e@ are cruel and wicked; théy aright; they don’t half rightly they do think till pe: the Old World and see; cans have only half curse as long as they worst and most privilege, the | money by the dead hand. SNe mel © ANYTHING BUT POOR Patience—Ever hear hi maing? Patrice—Indeed, I have, And fo it's as plain as that kittens have fur is used now or in a million years Why Brown, when he married, was married to her. from now; it remains true all the tume. Americans think old world heredi tary castles, kingships, and nobilities REAL PAINLESS DENTIST! In order to introduce dur new (whalebone) plate, which is the 4 and strongest plate known, covers very little of the roof of the ; you can bite corn off the cob; teed 15 years. “I think he’s a very poor tener.* “Poor, indeed! You ought to se how he spends money when he 4 jme out to dinner!"—Yonkers man. My wife thinks Da Vinei had lttle on me And Crichton was only a piker. Bhe believes I am all she desires me to be, And that ia the reason I like her C. Chaplin, BK. Sunday, J, Dempeey and such, Compared to my merits, are not very much You may not know why other weddings occur, But guess, if you can, why I'm married te her! (Copyright, 1920, N. B. A) all the hotels in Seattle, | One day I read of Preaidential stands favor us by running @ few of ‘em on jAnd sought Familiar faces in those)ine American plan. | An4 may—don't anyboty start a war until Mewes. 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