The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 6, 1920, Page 6

The Seattle Star tty, month: § montha, $1.66: @ months, $2.78) year, $5.08, mm the State ef Washington. Outaide of the state, The per month, V4.60' for € montha er $9.00 per year, Black Sheep Baseball is the most fortunate of professions. All the crooked men in it are be hunted down and driven out. Truly, baseball is entitled to the envy of other businesses and professions. hat a great social benefit it would be if every business and profession could easily as organized baseball rid itself of black sheep. If the lawyers could get together and drive all the shysters out of their dst; and if the doctors could throw the quacks and mal-practitioners out of ranks; and if business men could ostracize the sharpers, the profiteers d the ulators; and if editors could cast dishonest men out of their honor- iy carrier, elty, 120 por week. When the state si ; corrupt, then the ws are most multi- ied.—Tacitus, @CUCH is LIFE! >) Abner Harpington bring» flock of information about the teacher at Cross Roads. new teacher,” says Ab, “ttis- the hearty, wholesome bis- @isposition he seems to have ‘on the mid-west prairie, the wery start he put some ideas that we thought to be absorbed by the aid do it? We inquired. teacher fs an ardent sup-| of the personal touch sys are no small matters as the} see them.” may be sure the school re this as no small matter. { as the Cross Roads Bugle Hf ; wait Seems as how the old days when - kept a neat bundle of back of his desk have re- ii Goyousty}—i wrote a sonnet m my cuff last night. What shall I with it? devices re skirted voters antt-suffrage ly invented by th “No smoking tn or near the vot booth.”—-New York woman. must wear coat, collar and necktie."—Chicago dame. “Mirrors must be placed tn each Booth, and rocking chairs must be for women waiting their 6 vote.”.—Baltimore woman. CATTY “Mrs. Grabcoin has engaged a s0- dal secretary,” remarked Mrs, Gad ! “But I got even with her,” said Mrs. Twobbie. “How #0, my dear?” id “I passed the word around that she hired a social secretary because Bho doesn't know how to gpell.”—Bir mingham Age Herald, GUESS THIS || ible profession—then some one might have a better right than any one now has to throw the first stone at baseball as an institution. Baseball is not crooked because there are some crooks in it. Nor is any other profession or business crooked because it may harbor some crooked men. Rather, it is to the credit of baseball that it honors a — that does not brook for long the dishonorable player. The clean-up will not hurt baseball, but help it. The public’s great interest in the present revelations reflects the wholesome American ideal “to play the game are,” in nll relations of life. The crooked man and the trickster in business and the professions may be flourishing as of yore, but he is having a harder time getting by with his trade. Impressionistic Readers of newspapers may be sald to belong to the tmpresstonistic school. Like Mr. Dooley, they are apt to begin a speech with, “I see by the pa-a-pers,” and they often forget to weigh the statement tn the scales of their understanding before accepting it They even forget whether the statement quoted is news, advertising, | or editorial opinion, biased or unbiased. | Therefore, readers of current advertixing, tn this newspaper er any other, ought to remember that every advertiser pays for his own space and is entitied to present his views and arguments therein. Furthermore, the advertiser-is just as human as the render, the editor, or any other individual, and quite caturally he presents his own cane as favorably as poasibie, It Is quite natnral for example, for a packing company te explatn that its profit on a pound of beef is a fraction of a cent and, therefore, Wt cannot possibly be responsible for the high cont of choice cuta Or for a fabric company to amert that the indictment for profiteering against It was quashed by the first court of hearing. Or for « transportation company to asure you that the freight on ® pair of shoes is onty a nickel or so from factory to dealer, so you must see that freight rates cannot affect the price of shoes. It is quite natural that pe mention ts made of the fact that the tn creased rate is charged on everything, on the raw materialn, on the coal for factory steam, on lumber, concrete, steel, etc. for building, re bullding,.or for hypothetical replacement, on tools and machinery, and tm justice to himself, should analyze the impressions he gains from his daily trading. Mr. Docley’s formula is not sufficient. The Same Old Critter Miss Agnes Samo wonders if the men of today are as gallant, an thoughtful of woman's comfort, as courteous, as were the young men of her mother’s springtime years. Miss Agnes bases her doubt upon a «treet car incident, which she relates to the editor. (Mise Agnes, it may be explained, is exceedingly youthful In years and is streetcaring during the rush-to-work hours) “A woman carrying a baby in her arms entered the car,” said Mine Agnes, “and all the seats were occupied. The woman stood tn front of @ young man, evidently one who works at a desk all day. He didn’t seem to notice her, nor that she was holding a baby. I got up and gave thé woman my seat. The young man continued In his Another woman, gray-haired, came in. She, too, stood before the young man. He remained seated. Another young woman got up and gave the elderly lady her seat.” “And what conclusions do you draw? Miss Agnes was asked. “1,” she said, “have been wondering since whether men nowadays act that way because of equal suffrage and they believe woman has an equal right to stand in @ crowded street car, of is it because the young men of today aren't the equals of the young men mother tells about?” Most young men of mother’s day acted differently. They weren't too lazy to stand that a woman might ride in greater comfort, nor were they suddenly blinded when a woman entered a crowded car. Most young men of today are like that, too, But there were exceptions in mother’s dhy. There are today. Mins Agnes was unfortunate enough to meet a “critter” Ifke that the other morning. Her mother came across such “critters” once in awhile, too. But she quickly forgot about them—they were so few! And mother remembers only the others—the courteous, for they were in numbers Was It Justified? Was the great steel strike of last fall fustified? Did Foster and Fit patrick lead a movement that sprang from intolerable conditions that men could not endure without protest, as they asserted, or was it a Bolshevist conspiracy, as thelr opponents declared? The answer is contained in the report of the Interchurch World Moverent—the only investigation of the strike ever made that can be sald to be impartial. What did this body find? More than 62 per cent of the workers tn the steel industry work the 12-hour day. About one-half work the 7.dar week. The average steel work-week in 1919 was 24 hours longer than tn 1914, and 1.1 hours longer than in 1910. ‘The 12-hour day scheduleseare compulsory, as ts the 18hour or 24-hour or 26-hour turn, which usually accompanies the schedule, For working these hours, two-thirds of the steel workers earn from 5 to 25 per cent less than the estimate of the United States government| for “an American standard of living” for an average family of fiva ‘The United States Steel corporation, so the Interchurch committes found, acts without conference with its employes, It discharges men for! labor affiliation, uses blacklists, spies and labor detectives, and influences the press, pulpit and police authorities, These are @ few of the findings of the report. The Interchurch Move. ment has died—collapsing with the attacks leveled upon it for daring | to put forth this report. But ft has not died in vain. These are facts which the country has waited many months to learn. ‘Tie courageous men who faced the wrath of the powers that be, In order to tell them, deserve the thanks of thepation, Facts are the most valinble things in the world. These men are followers of that Jesus of Nazareth, who mld: “Ye Shall Know the Truth and the Truth Shall Make You Free.” Franklin D, Roosevelt was given a loving-cup, thus reviving interest among dry republicans. ——42—_. Our new college sentors have until June to learn how to fetch thts coun- try out of ite troubles, o Proper costume for November 2—a ticketine gown with ballot-bow pleata and @ poll-cat neckplece Hunger-striking ts comparatively recent, but the silence strike has deen . * THE SEATTLE STAR ‘EVERETT TRUE ““By CONDO | EVERETT {UST DINED FOR THE FIRST Time Wo CTHe New HOTEL, AND HERS'S A SPOON I SWiPED AS A SOUVENIR, TVS Cor Quire A COLLECTION FROM DIP FERGNT HOTELS AND CarGs —— At the Capital BY THE INSPECTOR WASITINGTON, Oct. 5-—Aborition of booze, the antl-pros say, te causing the unrest. Men long for the barroom. They long for the brawl, And oh, those sweet memories of the mornings after the nights before! How they yearn for more cold gray dawn with cracked tor on their heads, How wonderful the reminincences of bloat- ed faces and blear eyes! What a comfort it would now be to the wives and children to have the husband and father returning bome after pay day !n the wee sma’ hourn, stagger. ing and jabbering! What wouldn't the erstwhfle drink. er give for one more bursting head- ache? To experience once more funt +a little of the dark brown taste. With these privileges taken away, ia it any wonder that the people are tll at cane? wisee, ree Be Seth Walker, speaker of the Ten. MOVING ALONG WHILE { Ste HAVGS MY warTrcH AND POCKET BOOK wuffs, came here trying to get Secre- tary Colby to withdraw his proclama- tion declaring women were voters This, in the face of the fact that wines then Connecticut has ratified, w wiving the 37th state, ter Walker maid the blr Wea was to mive the honor of Tennessea. This wan probably the most unumual re quest that had ever been made to the state department. If Colby hadn‘t tasued tis procta- mation as @ result of Tennessee's ratification, he would be tssulng one now on account of what Connecticut aid. If Walker would ask President Wilson to resign his office in favor of Senator Harding, he could be as hopeful of having it granted, | Yet Walker t apparentty very serious in bis request. Walker is the man who originally promined to | vote for ratification and said it was j the duty of the legislature to ratify. Hin case is becoming strange! AFTERTHOUGHT “Did you hear about the deface. | ment of Mr. Skinner's tombstone?” |axked Mr, Jones a fow days after the Why Be Discouraged? By Whit Hadley industry, “No; what was it? inquired his nelghbor, curtously. “Some an added the word ‘friends’ to the epitaph.” “What Was the epitaph? “"He did his best.’ "—London Tit Dita, DID YOU KNOW THAT— Cute mM Gat he reeretted but vations, and Incidentaly pled up «a | three things in life: telling his friend | quarter of a million dollars, & secret; going @Gnce by sea when be “ee Cansar sai: “Under my tent tn the flercest strugsle’ot war, I have ab oe ways found time to think of many Dr. Johnson wrote “Raselag” dur. | other things.” He waa once ship-|it may be her last chance to show Ing the evenings of a single week to| wrecked and had to swim ashore, /0ff in good clothes. jcould have gone by land, and passing one day without accomplishing any- | thing. Oceasionany a girl tnsiste on « church wedding becaune she realizes | funeral of Ut eminent captain of | nensee house, with a bunch of anti. | WEDNESDAY, OCTORER ¢, 1970, — When Gran’pa Plays With Me BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE ‘When grandpa plays with me, he puts His horseteg crost his other foots And I «tt on his shoe a-straddie, Just lke I thought it was a saddle; And then I give his leg a slap And grab his hands and my “GiddapP And make him gallop, trot and run, While mama's gettin’ dinner done, And when my grandpa plays with ma, He makes @ careeat of his knee And bumps and shakes and goes “Choo! choo! Just like the cars and engines do, And yells out “Tickets!” loud and plain, Just like the man does on the train, And then I hug him like a bear, ‘Cause that’s the way I pay my fare ‘When grandpa plays with me—ooh, my? He swings me up so high—so high— “Till I get gaspy all inside And it t* such a funny feel And it is such a funny feel ‘That I just laugh until I squeal, I like the horse, I like the train, But best I like the airyplane! (Copyright, 1920, N. FE. A) | meet penses of his mother’s) put he carcied with him the mano — funeral. He made enough to pay off| ie of hie “Commentaries,” at jthe mortenge on her home, buy the) wich he was at work when the ship house and land outright, and add 40/ Joo) gown, cows to his farm, eee Franklin became trpatient at his Dafon spent his pare time [| o. 0h es ton — grace at table and asked school studying astronomy. He had|it ne could not any @ week's grnce ne money and only enough > | an af one time and have tt over with, ® crude on shipboard, during spare mo ments, he wrote “Improvement of ber 200,000 | Navigation” one besa Chimueya.” Editor— Write briefly. Cee tink of typmortier, One side of paper only. Sign your name unaided while tending a country storm Bafore becoming preaident of the United States he was recognized |an one of the very few accurate and | round lawyers of the Middle West, eee “There te no one whom Fortune — does not visit repeatedly. Life pul- REPLIES TO mutes with chances,” aald Marion. SINN FEINER | —— x asa FAltor The Star: In reading the earnest appeal of Mr, Conner in your valuable paper, for the United States to interfere on behalf of th mayor of Cork, I am reminded of a convernation I had with a friend of the so-called Irtsh republic the other day. In our conversation I asked him how he juntified the tndiserim- inate shooting down from ambush of the Diritish guardians of the peace in Ireland. His reply was that the Sinn Fein republic was at war with Britain, fighting for thetr Iberty, and therefore had a perfect right to kiN In any manner possible the armed warriors of Britain. “Well,” I says, “admitting what you say to| be true, would not the same reason- ling give to Britain the right to ar rest and imprison one of the Sinn Protection Is the Thing You Want! — When you buy your home you must know first of all that the title to the land ts good) And the best way to know {t is good is to have this big, strong State-Super- vised Insurance Company guarantee the title and guar Evidence of Good Judgment Many Seattle men who buy their clothes carefully have welcomed our present overcoat opportunity. They. know that in these days, when assur- in domestic use for centuries, There was an earthquake in Bcotland—but not violent enough to shake any money out of Harry Lauder’s kilts. A Vancouver, Wash., baby was born in an automobile. 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