The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 30, 1920, Page 6

The Seattle Star "FASS mm the 44.58 for ¢ montha or $9.00 per year, S00 per month: 8 montha, $1.66; @ moathe, 99.70; rear, State of Washinaton, we ~y ot ive ee The per month, carrier, aity, Douglas for Prosecutor “To protect the innocent as well as to prosecute the guilty.” Malcolm Douglas, republican candidate for prosecuting attorney, senses well the duties that will devolve upon him if he is elected. The innocent must be protected! That is as much the business of the prose- cutor as convicting the guilty. The innocent must not be put to unnecessary hardship. Under our system poh ip apnea p an innocent man may be arrest- It has been remarked } that there is no prince} so bad whose favorites and ministers are not worse.—Burke. Letters to the Editor— Write driefty. Use ink or typewriter One side of paper only. Bign your name. ON WAGES, WOMEN AND EMPLOYMENT Editor The Star: Altho I am pret ty firmly of opinion that most of the matter which appears in the news. papers in this corner of the world, even including that which has all the outward appearance of being genuine correspondence from read ers, is mostly of the machinemade variety, I venture to offer my com ments on a subject which is, I think, closely allied to that of “getting after delinquent dads,” as is given ox: pression to in your issue of Satur. day over the signature of “E. M. Farmer. All right-minded superficial think. ers will naturally say Amen to the writer's view of it, and I am not saying that I don't, but I would like to dig a little deeper. It is not so very long ago since your paper was pretty well filled ‘with @ tremendous how! from the fe- male teachers and others on their Dehalf that they should get equal pay with the men teachers, and also im this, please note that I am not giving my opinion on the matter, only I am to follow up the results of this equal pay business to its nat ural conclusion. Let us presulne, then, that a man Bnd woman are equal in ability, have equal duties to perform and receive equal pay; they get acquainted, then keep company with each other, dur ing which period present day con ventionalism compels the man to dig into his salary to pay for her admis to all entertainments they may wish to attend, also all transporta charges when he is along with ell as restaurant expenses— expected to clear off in i E i jement—and on top of be admitted that le somewhat leas board and room she do with her Save it up to provide a furnish it? Ob, no; by no The conventional system the prospective husband that, but on the off chance aid, who would like to be in unfortunate man's position? It indred chances to one that be reminded of the fact house is mine, etc., ete.,” now and then, when crossed her. I do not ex any one will take serious th me when I say most of require their salary, whatever , aru HELESCRELEREES pable of eremendous elasticity, as we know many can, and do, live re spectably under ten dollars a week, while others can not live within ‘Then what is the result of this expe Fience after marriage, when the in- come of the two 1s cut exactly in halt? She soon finds she can’wdo it and longs to have her freedom, with the result. that the divorce court is @pplied to so that she can get back Qgain to “equal pay.” KE M Farmer wants the man to produce bondsmen that would keep him in work so that money enough would be forthcoming to provide for bring ing up the results of this failure Marriage and also pay the alimony the courts usually allow the wife under such circumstances, all to the Getriment of the other fellow, who may, like myself, during the last nine months, be honestly looking for work, but between one mistortune and another, I have only been able to secure about siz weeks tn all dur: ing that time, and yet my wife and I are facing the problem of living with our family as we ought, but in @oing 80 we have both earned the ftitie, P. M. E. (Past Masters of Economy) thru dire experience, and could teach it to the great majority Of Seattleltes. Now, who is to blame? Personally, I give it up and will pass it on to E. M. Farmer. P. M. ECONOMY. FOR GOVERNMENT PRICE FIXING FAitor The Star: I read with in- terest your editorial in yesterday's Star under “The Moving Bait.” 1 am glad the press is beginning to take note of this condition. Ever since the| strike business commenced I have been saying it would never settle any. thing. Others begin to see it now. ‘There is only one way to bring about equity. Maybe after I am dead the Press will wake up to this. . From my viewpoint there is only ong way to deal with this vexed ques- tion, and that is for the government to fix the price of everything. First, let it arbitrarily fix the price of In- bor. This must be arbitrary, lke the interest rate. Then from this basis it ig easy to fix the prices of every. thing. Labor first, then interest on capital, which will include deprecia tion, and you have all that i# in- Yolved in the first cost. Figured on this basis we have equity, As it now is every fellow is grabbing for an Sdvantage. Supply and demand have been ditched long ago and gamblers Row make our prices. I was arguing ed, locked up in jail, kept there weeks and months, lose his employment or place of business, and, when inno- cence is established, he is turned free, to be sure, but without the slightest compensation for the suffering jand the loss of time and money he has had to endure. It is, consequently, of prime importance that the inno- cent be j stly dealt with. Malcolm Dou recognizes this. He makes this an im- portant part of his platform. It should be. This does not in the least conflict with the determination to push his prosecutions vigorously of those deemed guilty. Douglas can be counted upon to do his duty without equivo- cation. He did not hesitate on the battlefield—and he has not hesitated in civil life. Clean-cut, unafraid, he has iden- tified himself with the progressive, law-abiding element in this county, free of any political entanglements, anxious and ready. to serve the public, It is on this basis that support of his candidacy for pros- ecutor is asked. They'll Wake Up Dads whose youngsters still are youngsters would do well te con sider the time when the kidg find them out. For a while Dad is @ pfetty big man; he is the final authority on almost everything. As Dad is in polition, so are the little folk. as an authority on religion—sometimes. Whatever the question: When in doubt, go to Dad. Discipline probably is mther easy within limita; the little rascals well know how far they may go, and usually they take care to stay within those bounds, lest Dad's ire be aroused. Dad ts a mighty fellow, all-knowing, all.powerful—for a@ little time. If Dad is the right sort, he knows that he fs something of a sham, and he can estimate with fair accuracy the extent of his shortcomings. taking steps to make the inevitable showdown lems demoralizing than it might be. Some day the chiléren will awaken to the fact that Dad dosan't know as much as they thought he did and that his anger is futile and feebie. If it ts an utter rout for Dad on that day, it will be small comfort for him to reflect that the new grown-up youngsters will meet their Waterloo, too, in the course of time. And, anyhow, whose fault will that be? Dad even ts looked on * Human Differences Some one has sald that there ie very little difference begween men, but what difference there is is very important. He might have added that an importanteceming difference is often a symptom of a deeper resemblance. There are few things more insulting to a man than to be taken for an enemy that he despises, And yet a comparative anatomist talke about “the cat” or “the frog” as tho all cate or frogs were alike, and he does the same when he compares “man” with the apes. Indeed, the very fact that men loathe their enemies in characteristic of them all The more A and B hate each other the more alike they are tn this. An historian sees the people of ap age or country in much the same y. Are they carrying on @ war of religion? Then neither side has learned that one’s religion is not to be forced upon his neighbor, Are Russian Reds and Whites engaged in a death struggie? Then their unhappy country has been civilized enough to develop different economic groups, but not enough to work out confidence, sympathy and a spirit of fair pinay between them. The side that one taken in @ conflict in often @ matter of chance But the kind of thing they fight about shows what is commen to Pull and Push Two laws govern the universe. Pull and Push. Centripetal and Centrifugal Attraction and Repulsion. Centralization and Diffusion. Suns pull the planeta, to them. Pianets swing away, tugging at their orbits. So, in government, men are temperamentally Autocratic or democratic, Socialists or individualists, Imperialists of autonomists, Materialists or idealists, Militarista or pacifista. ° “The world is governed by law and law is force,” aayn the milltarist. “The world is governed by law and law is reason.” says the pacifist “Roosevelt, the realist, was three years ahead of Wilson, the idealist,” asserts the one. “In which case, Bismarck and the kaiser were 40 years ahead of both,” asserts the other, “America’s unpreparedness nearly lost the war.” “Germany's. preparedness caused it.” So it goa. Seems as if men were divided by a door, so to speak. On one side of the door is the word “Pull.” On the other ts the word “Push.” Each crowd clamors the word it sees and thinks the other deceitful 470 Per Cent The Transit Development Co, a subsidiary of Brooklyn Rapid Transit, is reported to have averaged 470 per cent per annum in dividends for several years. And then some wonder why investors believed in Ponzi. “No More War” Under the surface of diplomacy and government in Burope there ix stirring a force—ominous or promising, according to the point of view— that is having a vast influence on the course of world history. Little has been said about ft. But consider these significant facts: In Engiand, the representatives of 6,000,000 organized trades unionists have met and served notice on Lioyd George that any attempt to go to war to asmist Poland will mean a general strike of labor in Britain; In France, the government is compelied to hold large bodies of troops in Paris to suppress revolutionary demonstrations by workingmen who | 4re opposed to the recognition recently given by France to Baron Wrangel in south Russia; In Italy, the government, under threat by revolutionary workingmen’s organizations, has been forced to agree to mutual peace with Russ! and to open trade relations, while attempts to send arms and muni- | tions to Poland have been stopped by workers refusing to handle the trains and ships; In Austria and Czecho-Slovakia the workers have refused to handle munitions intended for the Polish front; In Germany, the workers have refused to permit trains of munitions to go forward and the government, under pressute of the workers, has been forced to deny France the right to send troops across Germany: In Belgium, the International Seamen's conference at Brussels adopted @ resolution refusing to handle troops or munitions. All this means one thing. Vaat bodies of workers have issued the | decree: “NO MORE WAR!” | The men and women who have suffered for four long, terrible yeers of bloodshed have decided that they will have no more of it. If there | is any fighting and dying to be done, they have decided to do it at home, in an effort to prevent war. The actions of governments in Europe may be watched with interest in the knowledge of this latest decree of the workers. Wesley L. Jones 1s asking your vote for the United States senate. But remember Wesley Lusitania Jones who pleaded for the katscr. Cow wants a strict accounting of campaign funds, Yes, Dayton’s the home of the cash register. Victor Berger, twice refused his seat im congress, ie @ candidate epain. He's as persistent as Lipton, The Maine youth who ate 40 apples at one sAtting must have been « mil- Honatre’s son or a plumber’s. THE SEATTLE 8ST - tS 1S ONLY ONG me f— : BOXES CUUTT@RING UP [=e — Roger W. Babson Writes for The His Own BY ROGER W. BABSON Once there was a man who prided himeelf on being frank and out spoken. He thought ft was commendable to. may unkind and tactiess things) just because they popped into his head. * imagined people admired him for this, whereas they really dreaded meeung him and avoided him when ever it was possible, He didnt realise that there are many times when it is better to keep! quiet than to make tactiess remarks.| ¢He stopped being 80 anxious to! pia: So be kept on making them, and give his own frank opinion of every- answer.” people grew to like him less aod lene and evaded him more and more. As is usual with people of this kind, he was very easily offended. An acquaintance, knowing this, de cided to see how he liked his own Star Today on Medicine medicine The first time thie sequaintance! had an opportunity, he said some very biting trutha, The man looked at him in amase- ment and became very angry. But he soon saw the point. He realized how he bad rudety and thoughtiessty hurt many people. He edmitted to himeelf that he was glad others had not been as frank as himeif, Being, after all, rather @ good sort, he was ashamed. thing and everybody, He saw that one may be tactful and honest at the same time. He discovered that the person with tact has many friends, while the tactleas has none ——e'll Say Som TODAY'S BEST BET: If you are a tramp, play with the tramps. eee Tt makes no @ifference what sign a man ts born under, the jinx will get him now and then. eee A fellow with a pound of push is worth more than one with a ton of pull. #. eee After awhile there will be nothing left to investigate except the re reformers, eee ‘Two men were talking about peo- ple being happy at their work. One asked: “How are you going to keow when a man ig happy at his work? “The man who sings at his work is happy,” replied the other “But how about the other man who has to?" . eee Pancho Villa calls himself “The Champion of Justice.” Sounds like stealing someone else's thunder, eee Clocks, like most men, bave to be keyed up. eee Dates are like drinks--you can't mix them. eee A fence may separate two back yards, but that won't stop a back yard argument. eee Some folks yell their heads off if) they crack a bad egz, and then they'll go out and probe into @ scan.) dal. To get him @ shot of rra He looked at his likker and said with @ enicker, “I sure got enough til I die. A quart every day keeps the shivers away And giaddens my heart like a song, And if I can run @ continuous bun, 1 won't have to live very long.” eee ‘The good preacher wna telling his youthful audience about the creation of the earth, the sun, and got round to the moon, He thought this a good opportun- ity to temt the children upon their knowledge of the Sunday school ies- fon. “Who made the moon to shine? he asked, sure that every child would know the answer. One little boy beat the others to the Door, “My dad™ said he. eee Nttle girl, says Doc Harvey 8 , Waa interested in watching the men in her father’s orchard put- Ung bande of tar round the fruit trees to prevent ground insects from crawling up, and asked @ good many questions, Some weeks later, when out with her mother, she noticed a man with @ mourning band round hie left sleeve, “Mother,” she said, “what's to keep them from crawling up his other arm?” eee A Missourian who hasnt visited a barber shop since Bryan first ran, |now says he'll have bis hair mowed when Palmer reduces the cost of liv. ing. Just another reason why there are few tonnorial artists in that state, People who love themselves have few rivals, eee Samuel Teller he went to the cellar, The Combined Savage tribes at the head waters of the Amazon used wierd methods to mpenk with the dead. Earning Power of the Savings of Our Seven Thousand Members #8°a lesson in the possibilines of Sang that would open the eyes of those who have not yet started this best of all business habits For nineteen years our Members Sav.7 ings have earned never less than a 5% PER ANNUM DIVIDEND and we mvite you to share in these sub- stantial earnings by starting to save now Resources Over Four Million Dollars PUGET SOUND SAVINGS this question with member of the United States Grain corporation dur- ing the war, and he said it is this ele- ment of chance the people like, I am hardly willing to admit we are a na- tion of gamblers and love dishonesty | better than fair dealing. If he is right, then my theory will be reject. ed. Government price fixing, based on a day's wage, is the only solution of the labor question. Why not get down to the bottom of the matter and settle it right? D. J. POYNTER, Everett. AND LOAN ASSOCIATION « Where Pike Street Crosses Third Doctor Frank - CRANE’S Article (Copyright, 1990) The Lie Screen. What Is Truth? Partisanship. Prejudice. One of the mont distressing ele ments in present day life is the as tontshing vigor and proliferournes» of the Lia, It seems almost impaanible to get at the exact and unexaggerated truth about anythin, There is no doubt that newspapers as @ class do thelr best to find out and to tell the truth, Those who compinin of the papers little realize | the formidable conspiracy of almost everybody concerned to deceive them, and to feed them with propa wanda and not facts. ; In the ease of labor trouble the editor is denounced by the trate em ployer on the one hand and by the outraged labor leader on the other, each abusing him because he will not publish his own colored reports. Of politics it is quite superfivous to speak, The whole field t# thick with smoke wereen and camouflage Of even the most ordinary and publie occurrences it ts difficult to aacertain the actual details I have read the papers pretty wteadily about Ponsi, for instance and up to date I have been unable to discover just what it was he di¢ that waa criminal There was « drunken row in « New York club recently in which « prominent baseball magnate was im plicated. At the time of this writing 10 days have past, and neither the reporters nor the police seem to have discovered just what took place. Of Russia no man appears to know the truth. The revolution in that country has outdone the cuttlefish in darkening the waters with inky Rewepaper article, speech aftr speech, te uttered about the Iriah yet it is hard to find a single mind that does not draw its conclusions and form its judgments from ite prejudices and pansions ther than from provable data. course each side on every quee Seams that it alone tells the jut truth does not scream. Rven on such matters as the con. Pertti ts tere ry: ‘inepe ; : af mx and wo' AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH the @ummer a great exodus of American musical genius and talent took place; doxens of our beet-advertived and high omt-paid singers and players went to ARLY in carry their gifts to England, and France, and the continent, and, tho none of them said #o right out loud, | I guess mont of thene artint folk felt that they were going to meet with rapt enthusiasm, because they were taking artietic gifts to arUstic peo ples and away from crude and com mercial America, Well, the artintn are returning, most of them considerably before they expected to, and they all are homing gladly, with ready mptures for good old U. 8 A. and eptritua) bruises, ike color maps, adorning their injured vorporealities. For, strange to say, tho we saved the world from burning up, the world | just Now despises and scorns—aye, | Mt frequently even hates—us, And on these singers and musicians gen- erally was poured the scorn that fngiand and France had been bot ulng. Returnigg tourists, whether buat nets men, travelers or artists, agree that not in 60 years hag Englieh feel. ing been so bitter against this coun: wy ‘These also agree that the French love the Hunttittle, but they love us ‘ons, and public insult waa the not in frequent lot of Americans in gay Paree and elsewhere, Ané this not only from the hoi pollot, who but yesterday eried on the high-pulaing and heroic bosoms of thelr Yankee rescuers, but also from the nobility, even to the royn! airele of British society, where the greatest American artists were not only not received nor noticed, but whowe pet newspaper organs took es pecial delight in savagely damning. with bitter invective and unjust crit- iclam, musicians whose ability has teen eatablished for years, and quite evidently most of these criticiums took the tone they did because of the present contempt for all things American, - ° ° ESTERDAY it was rosee— threecarat diamond ring, you evidently are lens pronperoug than he in, do thril cre tude? Ay ii it Is @ matter of common knowk ede that too fond parents have chit dren that deapiae them, and that too lenjent wives have sorry husbands, Tt you want to lowe a friend, lean hiro money, and if you want t be conmdered a fool, or « hypocrite, dg nome unusual deed of charity stranger. ae Every man of wealth has discow ered that it ts ten Umes harder tobe stow charity than it is te harvest money, and every employer knows that high wages do not bring tp creased efficiency, But we persist in OR years we have been pow ing out billions on billions ing & penny in recompense for heaped-up mountains of gifts to strangers, and ail we get is mockery—even savage of our own to bury. RIV. BY EDMUND VANCE In whateoe’er I am, or 1 have a rival and bis name is ‘The world is so compressed You not move Re Rat You may jar me from my Bile groove. roses everywhere; today it is the bounding brick bouncing from off our be Wildered beans. And quite right, t00; quite right. |. Whenever any man or nation dors an act of unselfish and idealistic kindness for a perfect stranger, be can expect contempt. ‘This nation has of late been fool- ing itself with the sophism that good deeds, generous impulses, love Nor are You se secure, the throsed on high, That You may scorn your rival, whe is I. 80 runs your perf and so runs ay fate, Until we spef the word (Copyright, 1920, N. BA)” York and Philadelphia, of humanity, arouse similar emotions | workers protected themsetves by. ers, tho we should know thas tung their hair grow very long and ing @ close-fitting cap. Can Seattle Avoid a MILK FAMINE? A critical situation has arisen among the Milk Distributors of the City owing to a great short- age af Bottles and the impossibility of obtaining the usual supplies because of lower production by the Bottle Makers and transportation diffi- culties. In the City of Indianapolis only a short time ago there was a real Milk Famine from the same cause, and unless Seattle Dealers can get the co- operation of Milk Users in the return of empty Bottles the chances of such a Famine in Seattle are very real and very imminent. A Deposit of 10c Will Be Required on All Bottles on and After Sept. lst To stop the Bottle shortage becoming any more acute, a 10¢ deposit will be required on Bottles at all Seattle Stores on and after September 1st, but you are respectfully reminded that this small deposit does not entitle you to keep the Dealer’s Bottles, which you are urgently re- quested to return as early as possible. DO YOUR BIT FOR SEATTLE BY RETURNING ALL EMPTY BOT- TLES NOW IN YOUR POSSESSION Seattle Milk Dealers’ - Association ~~ ~ Saeed i= soer> ot ye oe