The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 18, 1920, Page 10

| Interchurch Heads Ask Pub- = lic to Help Avert Big Industrial Conflict * NEW YORK, Sept. 18—Inviting ful examination of the condi im the American steel industry Public-spirited organizations, the chureh World Movement's com: n of inquiry, has addressed the open letter to the public. “The commission made an investi. of the recent steel! strike and a lengthy report of its findings. report was the basis for general ‘attack on the Movement by the Of the stecl industry, The re is now being considered by the tment of labor, having passed President Wilson's hands. ING TOWARD . ICTED WARFARE fhe Commission of Inquiry of Interchurch World Movement to the public to consider one of the commission’syreport on. strike tn the light of sig- it developments since the pub- +a causes of the strike, pointed ‘that strike-causing grievances so that the industry ts drift- toward unrestricted warfare, d primarily that the fed- ment set up a commis ‘gion which should initiate free open c ce batween employe and em- and in conclusion phrased in words a question which the 's activities had raised: the nation helpless before in a basic industry which a future crisis? Can our tle society be moved to do ti without the pres of crisis itself? developments have oc since the report was pub ‘on July 28. LINING UP TTLE se. ext referred the report to the . of labor who has taken up matter with the commission. “ O tion of Labor announced that make a ‘new drive’ to or- ‘are not denied by the march of ‘We hold that the events the report's question— ‘the public, forewarned, rest in- @ basic industry prepares|*0 we couldn't move at all, for a Just because the|time, Then it came to when I was is some way off, or because go by sheer default? for action on the facts ex- €an await with confidence any ‘ dation being prepared by we call upon the under whatever forms of or- tion it merits the term public: to offer service of co-opera- to the federal government, to or extend independent in- tions into conditions in the industry, to meet the challenge ‘orderly progress which is implicit preparations by his lecture and look down and see THE SEATTLE STAR Mary Marie Py EleanorHPorter COPYRIGHT 1 anything, either, at the luncheon table, when Grandfather was talk: ing with Aunt Hattie about the lec ture, and telling some of the ehings Puther had said. (Continued From Yesterday) ‘We sat back—a long ways back. T wanted to go up front, real far front the front seat, if I could get ft, and I told Mother so, But she said, “Merey, no! and shuddered, and Grandfather said it was an admir went back two more rows from /able address, scholarly and convino where sho waa, and got behind a big | ing, or something like that, And he post. said that be thought Dr, Anderson I guess she was afraid Father/had improved greatly in looks and would see us, but that's what I want-|manner, And he looked straight at ed. I wanted him to see us, I want-| Mother when he said that; but still ed him to be right in the middle of | Mother never said a word, In the afternoon I went to walk right there before him his little girt Mary, and she that had been the wife of his bosom, Now that would ave been what I called thrilling, real thrilling, especially if he jumped or grew red, or white, or stamnfered, or stopped short, or anything te came in I couldn't find Mother. she wasn't anywhere downstairs, nor in her room, nor mine, nor anywhere else on that floor, Aunt Hattie sald no, she wasn't out, but that she was sure she didn't know where she was. with one of the girls; and when I) show that he'd seen use—and cared. I'd have loved that. But we mt back where Mother wanted to, behind the post. And, of course, Father never saw us at all. It was a lovely lecture. Oh, of course, I don't mean to say that I understood it. I didn't But voice was fine, and he looked just too grand for anything, light on his noble brow, and he used the loveliest big words that I ever heard. And folks clapped, and look ed at each other, and nodded, and) once or twice they laughed. And when he was all thru they clapped again, harder than ever, And I was so proud of him I wanted to stand right up and holler, “He's my father! He's my father!” just as loud as I could. But, of course, I didn't, I Just clapped lke the rest; only I wished my hands were big like the| was the matter, man’s next to me, so I could have/a thing, not a thifg, not for a long made more noise. Another man spoke then, a little (not near so good as Father), and then it was all over, and everybody got up to go; and I saw that a lot the President of the United|qisie, and I looked and there was of folks were crowding down Father right in front of the plat- form shaking hands with folks. I looked at Mother then. Her face August 3, the American|was all pinky-white, and her eyes were shining. I guess she thought I spoke, for all of a sudden she shook her head and said: “No, no, I couldn't; I couldn't! But back.” I knew then that !t muse have Teport was formulated last|been just my eyes that spoke, for Its six-monthsold predic-|I did want to go down there and Ob, I did want to speak to Father. go! And I went then, of course. ste He didn't see mo at first. There &@ democracy govern itself;|was a long line of us, and a big fat man doing a lot of talking to him, just three peeple away from him. And I was looking straight at him. He saw me,then, And, oh, how t democracy to let economic}! did love the look that came to surprised and report's basic statements|slad. and said, “Oh! You!” im such | Mot been challenged; on the|® perfectly lovely way that I choked , the bulk of public opinion | all up and wanted torery. (The idea! a surprisingly wide-spread|—cty when I was so glad to see his face; it was s0 him) I guess the two folks ahead of me didn’t think they got much attention, and the next minute he had drawn me out of the line, and we were both talking at once, and telling each other how glad we were to see each other. But he was looking for Mother—I know he was; for the next minute after he saw me, he looked right over my head at the woman back of me. And all the while he was talk ing with me his eyes would look at me and then leap as swift as light- ing first here, and then there, all over the hall. But he didn’t see her. I knew he didn't see her, by the look {on his face. And pretty quick I said ployer conference, under auspices, begun now. Let Sage press for this first step. 12hour day, involving hun- of thousands, the seven-day that make for un- corrupts its institutions—is the Feform of all this to be left simply | to the hazard of a strike?” | The letter is signed by Bishop Francis J. McConnell, chairman; Dr. Daniel A. Poling, vice chairman of | the Commission of Inquiry, Inter _ehurch World Movement. I'd have to go. And then he said: “Your mother—perhaps she didn’t —<lid she come? And his face grew all red and rosy as he asked the question. And I said yes, and she was wait: ing and that was why I had to go back right away. And he said, “Yes, yes, to be sure,” and, “good-bye.” But he still held my hand tight, and his eyes were stilt roving all over the house, And I had to tell him again that I really had to go; and I had to pull real de- termined at my hand, before I could | break away. And I don't believe I could have gone even then if some his with the| Hattie keeps her trunks and moth-| She must be somewhere in the house, I went upstairs then, another fight. There wasn't anywhere else to go, and Mother must be some. wher, of course. And it seemed suddenly to me as I'd just got to find her. I wanted ber sa And I foutnd her. In the Iittle back room where Aunt | ball bags, Mother was on the floor in the corner crying. And when I} exclaimed out and ran over to he I found she was sitting beside an old trunk that was open; and across her lap was a perfectly lovely pale-blue satin dress all trimmed with silver lace that bad grown black, And Mother was crying and crying a» if her heart would break. Of course, 1 triéd and tried to stop her, and I begged heg to tell me what | But @ couldn't do time. Then I happened to say what @ lovely dress, only what a pity it was that the lace was all black. She gave a litle choking ery then, and began to talk—little short sen- tences all choked up with sobs so that I could hardly tell what she was | talking about. Then, little by little, | I began to understand She said"Yes, it was all black— tarnished; and that it was just like everything that she had had any- thing to do with—tarninhed; her life and her marriage, and Father's life, and mine—everything was tarnished, Just like that silver lace on that! dress, And she had done it by her thoughtless selfishness and lack of self-discipline, And when I tried and tried to tell her no, it wasn't, and that I didn’t feel tarnished a@ bit, and that she wasn't, nor Father either, she only cried all the more, and shook her head and began again, all choked up She said this little dress was the one she wore at the big reception where she first met Father. It was & beautiful blue then, all shining and | spotless, and the sliver lace glistened | like frost in the munlight. And she was 80 aba happy did and handsome thn, too, she said singled her out, and just coukin't seem to stay awny from her a min- ute all the evening. And then four days Jater he asked her to marry him; and she was still more proud | and happy. And she sald thelr married life, when they started out, was just like that beautiful @ress, all shining and | spotless and perfect; but that it! wasn't two months before a little bit | of tarnish appeared, and then an- other and another. She said she wan selfish and will- | ful and exacting, and wanted Father | all to herself; and she didn't stop to think that he had his work to| do, and his place to make in tho| world; and that all of living, to him, Special skin treatment ed Complexion Beautifier, GoltreGo remedy. Herb Medicine Mf. Co., P. O. Box 851, Seattle. Proposaln will be received by tha! Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department, Washington, C. until 10 o'clock a m., Oct i 1920, for delivering cars. pulleys, pers and hand winch to the Navy ard. | Bureau count, SAMUEL Me > | master General of th ry —————————<$_— AMUSEMENT. when | Father—and was fine and splen./ st wasn't just in being married to her, and attending to ner every whim. She said she could see It all now, but that she couldn't thén, she was too young, and undisciplined, and she'd never been denied a thing in the world she wanted. As she said that, right before my eyes rose that box of chocolates ahe m me eat one at a time; but, of course, I didn’t say anything! Besides, Mother hurried right on talking. Bhe said things went on worse and worse—and it was all her fault. She «grew sour and cross and disagree- able, She could seo now that she did, But she did not realize at all then what she was doing. She was just thinking of herself—alwayn her- welf; her rights, her wrongs, her hurt feelings, her wants and wishes, She never once thought that he had rights and wrongs and hurt feeling», maybe, And so the tarnish kept growing more and more. She said there was nothing like selfishness to tarnish the bautiful fabric of married life. (isn’t that a lovely sentence? I said that over and over to mywtlf so as to be sure and remember it, so I could get it Into this stery. I thought it was beautiful.) She said-a lot more—oh, ever so much more; but I can't remember | (1 lont some while T was say- | ing that sentence over and over, so) as to remember it.) I know that she went on to say that by and by the tarnish began to dim the bright nean of my life, too; and that was the worst of all, she aald-—that inno- cent children should suffer, and their young lives be spoiled by the kind of living I'd had to have, with this wretched makeshift of a divided home. She began to ery again then, and begged me to forgive her, and I eried and tried to tell her I dida’t mind it; but, of course, I'm older now, and I know I do mind ft, tho I'm trying Just as hard/as I can not to be Mary when I ought to be Marie, or Mario when I ought to be Mary. Only I get all mixed up so, lately, and Isald so, and | gush 1 orted some more. (Continued Monday) PLANS FOR FURTHERING th victorious Life movement in’ the Northweat will be discussed at an/ open meeting of the testimony com: mittee at § p.m. Monday tn the a» senibly hall of the Y. W. C. A ‘ “BOB” BRIDGES SEEKS DEBATE! Challenges Gov. Hart to Verbal Joust At the opening meeting of the Farmer-Labor party campaign, be fore 3,000 persons Friday night in the Arena, Robert Bridges, candidate arty for governor, challenged candidate, or any other candidate, to participate in a joint debate on the North Dakota nonpartisan league legislation enact- od in 1919, Bridges declared it cost the people of North Dakota about §2 per person lens in taxes than it did in Wasi ington, He said he was willing to speak in favor of anything which would do that Bridges declared himeelf in favor of free ape free assemblage and free press a: if thin was socialism then he was a socialist, He opposed the Carylen road bill and compulsory military training. More than $1,000 was donated at the meeting for campatgning pur. poses, An effort will be made to raise $5,000, C, J. France, candidate for the sen- ate, #poke at some length on the Farmer-Labor p Dunean, congre labor remaining out of politics, Wire Briefs SAN ANTONIO.—Fire near Tam pico, Mexico, destroys $1,000,000 worth of ofl and other property, HOQUIAM.—Gust Pasle, 47, tn jured by*falling tree. KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. Kerter son Lumber Co, plant, at Ivan, Ore., destroyed by fire with $260,000 lona, | HOQUIAM.-Pilot F. EB. Harding flies from Portland to Hoquiam in two hours, 17 minutes. FILER, Idaho —Business block fire causes $300,000 damages, JULESEURG, Colo.— Plane pilot ed by George Meyers wrecked in at tempt to lift “Daredevil" Duncan from speeding auto, Meyers slightly hurt. Oregon G.O.P. Will Open Campaign PORTLAND), Ore, Sept. 18.—The republican presidentiay campaign in Oregon will be formally opened here night with a public rally in the ‘Auditorium, ‘The Meeting, which wit! be a Har ding Goolidge ratification rally, will 6 under the auspices of the repub- Vean state central committee. Wiliam Licyd Harding, governor of Iowa, will be the principal speaker, Bank and Combined Financial Statement showing condition at the close of business September 8. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts . Overdrafts U. S. Bonds to Secure Circulation: Bonds, Securities, etc... Furniture and Fixtures. Real Estate .. ee Cash and Exchange Redemption Fund U. S. Treasurer... $13,504,150.37 8,422.72 50,000.00 476,828.53 61,953.13 eee 442,482.56 . 6,334,134.45 2,500.00 oreo Customers’ Liability Under Letters of Credit and Acceptances . 158,673.33 $24,934,145.09 LIABILITIES Capital Stock ..........eeeeeseeees+$ 1,600,000.00 4 Surplus Fund .......... Undivided Profits (Net). 100,000.00 272.83 *INU.S. JOB | Miss Ethel Donahue of Hart- ford, who was recently ap- pointed special assistant to} Attorney General Palmer, is the latest woman appointee to a responsible government po- sition. She deals with navy matters in the department of justice. FUNERAL SERVICES for Joc! F. Jones, Seattle pioneer and for many | tion SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER WOMAN WANTS DIVORCE, BUT-- She Also Wants to Keep on Traveling With Hubby The Wanderwells wander far, but not too , According to the testl mony of Mrs, A. Wanderwell-Pieez zynski, in her suit for divorce before Presiding Judge J.T. Ronald She declared she wanted a divorce from her husband pleture © travelogue mo but insisted she planned to continue with him on the remainder of the 150,0004nile au tomobile trip around the world The court inquired if she meant she wanted a divorce and plann nue her trip with her hust ertainly,” responded Mrs, Wan-| derwell, “Marriage in thing and business ts her, son why We can't get eas partners just because our mar. riage was a failure.” ‘This all but upset the court, and he took the question of a divorce under advisement The husband was represented in court by a lawyer, He had previous ator, 18, 1920. “Rainin’ pitchforks don’t move th’ wheat crop any quicker.” ly filed an answer to his wife's com plaint, denying the charges. But | when the case came to trial he did | not contest it The wife alleged in her complaint that they were married at Birming- am, Ala., October 6, 1918, She sald he beat her. The Wanderwell party, which is traveling to all remote parts of the world in an automobile, plans to leave Seattle for British Columbia, w boat will be-taken for Aus years bailiff in Judge Ronald's court, will be held Sunday at 3 p, m. at thi | Armory. Public Dance Monday ARE ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET? Puget Sound Power & Light Company’s Five-Year Gold Coupon 8% Notes Dated September 1, 1920; Due September 1, 1925 Sizes, $100, $500 and $1,000 Dexter Horton Trust & Savings Bank, Trustee Price $100 and Interest—Yield 8 Per Cent DIVERSITY is another way of thinking of the old saying about keeping “all your eggs in one basket.” If you had your eggs equally divided among three baskets you would have three times the diversity you would if they were all in one. Think of the diversity of the power, light, interurban, street railway, gas and steam heat business done by the properties of the Puget Sound Power & Light Company in the 147 commun- ities which they serve! 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