The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 16, 1921, Page 6

: PAGE 6 The Seatile Star By Mast. out of city, Se per month: 3 ha $1.48; G mothe, $2.78: ye Again the Vicious Circle Reducing Pay of Railway Workers Won't Solve Railways’ Problem | THIS vicious circle business gets onthe nerves. Consider the railway mess. Congress enacts the Esch-Cummins law. It recog- nizes the high cost of living (which is all it has done about it in the two useless years of its life) and pro- vides for an increase of wages to the r. 6 per cent profit to the railroad owners. | The railroads say that a billion and a half dollars a) year in increased rates will produce the necessary rev- | | city, Le per week road men and | Asmoctation Reve Newspaper Enterprise and United Prom Published Dally by The St ing Con Phooe Bt enue. So the merchants and manufacturers and farmers and consumers of the country have a billion and a half dollars added to their railroad bill—a little added to everything we eat and everything we wear. The public goes on a consumers’ strike and curtails buying. : Business, seeking to recover from the war spree, staggers under the new blow, passes the higher freight rates on to the consumer and begins to cancel orders and industry lags. That means less freight to be hauled and fewer passengers. That, it is argued, means higher freight rates. That must mean higher price: That must mean still less buying. Thta must mean still less freight. That must mean still higher freight rates— age han And you have gone twice around the vicious circle. wate ee ee * 8 % %e |S° THE RAILROADS demand an average cut of Tes Adecwn Den a about $500 a year in the wages of about a million has made a pair « tor/employes who are not inside the four big brother- woman, putting a fold watch in| hoods. | the upper one. With a watch in| . ‘ Por : | her shoe aiid clocks in ber stockings| This might break the vicious circle, but does any-| tae’ © be bie © "S88" body seriously believe that a million yard and shop w. jemployes can stand an average cut of $10 a week? THE CRIME WAVE , . ss : sn Gneark but old thieves have been | They can’t, hecause the high cost of living is still in Ee varios kinds ‘teats Our midst. And one of its present ingredients is the! "Ground town already. They ere be-| bill that is paid to the railroads. tng watched. and if not very caret! | More than that, the high freight rates have resulted Will get before the winter is over) | A What Is justly due them jin fewer goods being moved to satisfy demand. That wet a lot of large headed tacks | means high prices. Apples, potatoes and other prod- George Snaveley’s auto shed re-| uce go to waste instead of to market. And that means ly. Mr. Sn ey's driver. | higher prices. Hammond, by chance and ac. | agcwendion Next to labor, coal is the railroad’s big operating A WoRD Fhow Jost Wish © Th’ only time some men wake up is when they've had a nightmare, ‘a A German city has decided to pen Bion all the poor and tax ¢ oeus. A few years of that and t Bll be claiming they'y poor of E Penetrated his shoe, and thus saved | 3) them from having his tires punctur- | rg nt both. tramped on one that} expense. The railroads use a hundred and fifty mil- ed. Mr. Snavely is at a lows to know | lion tons a year. The first month the efficient private ee es oo operators took the roads over from government oper- Leo Potfenderger, son of Deck.| ation (March, 1920), they paid an average of $3.49 Ba 8 aoe robe stclen from his cy per ton for coal. By September, after five months, tor. He was a bold thief, as the they were paying an average of $4.77 a ton, an in- ee oe toe une eight on the | crease of $1.28 a ton, or at the rate of $190,000,000 a “to Poodie Poffenberger’s hen- | Year. ae te And an attempt was made to| Now nobody is heard to say that last March the coal ickens, a ey were fright: | A ned away by members of the fam-|Operators and dealers were not doing pretty well, fy.—Shepherdstown (W. Va) Regie | thank you. ter. 5 as ee % * D ® * 8 (* twenty young men in the Penn: | REDUCED TO ITS LOWEST TERMS, the railroads ant ol ave takes ' aay af cooking. Toxteing ter! propose to take about $500 a year out of the pay Married life? | envelopes of a million of their workmen and split it OUR OWN FORECAST: |60-40—the railroad owners to get $300 of each $500 FAIR WEATHER ae and the coal men to get the other $200. the engasement of Mis Certrate &| As @ matter of fact, the already increased freight Gocdteliow, formerly of Morristown. rates and the extortions of the coal men are resting | Kronur 's ‘cooatetlow ot Fast bur, | With relentless weight upon the shoulders of Ameri- ham, N.Y —Morristown J);can business men and farmers, and are keeping up ss | the prices of everything. Nevada's legislature ha» passed a| The “efficient” management which private oper- Bil Providing that nobedy “he has ators promised, and a return even to war-time coal | Months may start a divorce suit, prices, might break the vicious circle. Taking it out! re ne ee tree tout St fol | of pay envelopés at the rate of $10 a week may break . | something else. | “Borderland Defectives” R. WILLIAM J, HICKSON, criminologist, has given a name to the most troublesome class of people in the . _ Cox and McAdoo are in a war to @btain control of the democratic ‘party. It reminds us of a battle of a couple of undertakers for a corpse. “ee Baltimore's oldest physician cele-| Drated his 94th birthday the other and after telling folk how to live | Wo 14 Jong, said, “I am opposed to woman | WONG. . jeuffraze because the majority of/ The men who resort to crime when they are out of work, ‘women have little knowledge of what who desert their families, impose upon their friends, are ey are voting for.” And if all the| a burden upon others from the cradle to the grave—these vere “borderland defectives.” They cry out that “the world is against them.” And it is. Men were denied the ballot for that Feason, wouldn’t it be an easy job to, ‘Count the votes? | “+8 Jesse James’ old home in Spring Se ANE ae | field, Mo., is to be sold nde ge ture is against them, because they are inefficient and 7 Hedy buys it to preserve it. Here’x an | anti-social. Science can view them with detached under- ) opportunity fc eal mine|standing, their mothefs can pity them, but everybody owner to honor else dislikes them. Many men are ambidextrous when| When the shifty-eyed youth with a morbid twist in his| Ht comes to grabbing something| Mind, a taint in his soul and bitterness in his heart comes that's free along, he brings woe with him. ecier ‘Lewis wits, who is To confine all the borderland al IMector, told him to go ahead and de. | Possible. c a as . Velcp the headlock, as it was harm-| Improving conditions of living and thinking among all} Jess, producing sleep with no bad classes of people is the one sure way to get rid of them. ‘After effects. It produces sleep all Se wt . ona amas ‘ . mt. A fellow on whom Lewis triea| 248 will be the work of generations, Ht two months ago has been sleeping | Most of the time ever since . SELF-EVIDENT Screen Actress—I have ate from my doctor sa cannot act today Manager—Why you go to all Phat trouble. I could have given you & certificate xaying that you never could act.—Film Fun defectives would be im- As has been noted before, there is much con in congress If the taxpayer lobbied as much against appropriations as he kicks against paying for them, he'd have lesa to pay. certifi that I SR Now we know Harding's a heavyweight. They're using structural steel, instead of wood, as aia usual, for the inauguration platform Even when living is high no one weeps because he didn’t live a hundred | years ago, when it was much cheaper MONOTONY BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON I have never been a soldier, but I have heard that | (oote-b the hardest tasks of a soldier's life grow not out of | The its dangers but out of | ite helpless monotonies, | “l-’ave-marched-six-weeks in ‘Ell and certify Kipling has interpreted | [t4s-not-fire-devils dark or anything this experience in lines | ‘But boots-boots-boots-boots moving up and down again, which ‘-eome And there's no discharge in the war!’ think are doggerel, which seem to me greatly rhythmical a full of the weary spirit of the heavy march “We're foot - slog - slog slog sloggin’ over Aft. rica! Foot - foot - foot-foot-slog gin’ over Africa (Boots-boots-bo movin’ again!) There's in the -boots-boots Inovin’ up and down again!) re'’s no discharge in the wart people but It is not the « this madden lier alone who feels ing sense of mono’ I have heard that among} people who an abnormal proportion are farmers’ wives. I should think it might be true. The| glory of nature has no fair chance of inspiring lives | that, with the « lens iteration of three meaix a day, | | breakfast-dinner-supper,. grow depressed and hopeless | with the upand-downward motion of the boots. ro insane More or les life is freg mak " we all have that march. No task in from its element of monotony. We can! ourselves as miserable as we like dwelling tpon | aspects of our pilgrimage. But besides th other considerations, Our march {* not} no discharge ; we arrive. Our battle is not forever: we{ 1 t and conquer, The boots do more than move | up and down; they move forward, And at the day's| end we camp, in the language of the good old hymn—| | up and dowr | “Try -try-try-try — te think of something different | Ob-my-Got-cep me from goin’ lunaw' “” “And nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.” | young man, THE STAR | HERE’S WILSO SEATTLE This is the first picture of the garden and sun porch in the rear of President Wilson's new Washington home where, after March 4, he intends to go into seclusion for a complete rest. 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T KNOW jolly well that I would not turn out at night to hear Imynelf lecture, even if it wab a free ontertainment."—G. K. Chesterton. Rut my love's round arme Pie tay - ‘That softly fold me Make fair white magic And #0 they hold me “ ation, where the smoke is not inbaled, ts particularly harmful Dr, Royal 8 Copel jmistioner of R00D ADVICE “Thie—ub-glub- To « quiet comfort And a warm abode In a enug white cottage By the long white road. ee } ‘These the things that hold a map- mightiest of charms, Thrall of woman's tenderness, white arms! (Copyright, 1971, N. BE. A) BACK-FIRED When the clock struck "12," the other night, father came to the head of the stairway, and in a rather loud tone of volce anid: “Young man, la your ‘self. starter’ | out of order tonight?* It docan't matte ‘as long as the house.” «od & customer In a rapid-fire restau two rant, knife!” rome, it in.” briskly said Heloise, the wait Country Gentieman. 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Corner First and Pike Phone Main 2555 epaghetti ip awful lobgiob—alippery stuff!’ complain. | “Aw, don't try to eat tt with your | Ketch it by the tall and reel plearly under: | Country | AS OTHERS SEE THE WORLD Kiditorials and Comments Reprinted From Various Newspapers YOUR CHILIYS TEACHER (From the Boston Record) it wae a year ago,” ame of education, The they “The teacher shortage in just as United § rerious a ounces Phil r P. Claxton ed te corm er at moteriol «by u fill these thouvands of vacancies? cople must decide, The children are aith It in theirs, the we in theirs, hools are their agents up to them.” any elr-| What in to be done about it? Pay adeaw can't attarteed to t that ma rity baw 1 world makes ANSWERS BEAN, 4900 W “Suffering cat. not WALTER KIDSTON place: “Absolutely BE HAT we concetvable a boy that age should tried." M. J, RUMAN certainly do | w W. CAMPBELL, 108 N. 38th! penootr “1 don't think any li-yearold do the kind of thinking sary to constitute the in the first ext M ot Btevens i. 8. excuse tor putting t pr their work is no 610 Olympic high bid for will help. four-year high mal no." nmere ability It hard ning me that , Kirkland . enact school course would schools with respect to their 1 the ru Hastlake ave country tea the crumbs,” laments one spectall oOls in the United States, the rul row of all to hoe. ut off from her frie i deprived by distance a true te her loves and pr on cute down th number of vacancies, kewlse the nut of sainries to be paid, It benefits the pupil It helps the teacher, afford to employ teachers of the better sort? we afford not | ory ¥ | wt boy can that in crime of murder gree.” be is ot uitural r Conse ireer nece de Can Car HANGED BY RED TAPE | Sg myths) SSO! IMMLKE Yor INFANTS & loffice at the county asylum burst + INVALIDS ASK FOR Horlick’s © The Original. Avoid 4 Imitations zo eed Substitutes Japen and the new attendant rushed jm breathlonaly he reported hanged himself | “And dic u cut him down manded the superintendent in excl ment “Oh, no, sir, He wann't dead yet.” Amerfcean Legion Weekly. Bir,” “Jonen hae just Vor Infente Invetide and Growing Chilaren The Original Food-Drink For All Ages Fo 1 Apple Pie go to Boldt’s, dvertinement | Roan pated Ornte Baers io Pema THE SCANDINAVIN AMERICAN BANK Branch al Ballard SEATTLE } ' ALASKA BUILDING SECOND AVE. AT CHERRY ST. DIRECTORS: A. CHILBERG, Chairman ef the Beard. DOUBT if smoking in modern: | and, health com: FRED EK. SANDER, Preetdeat Seattle Land & Improvement Co. RALPH S. STACY, President. WM. RK, STOCKHRIDGE, View President. J. P. WRTER, of Weter & Roberta, Atlorecys. BRANCH AT BALLARD @TTO S. J. PEDERSEN, Manager. G F. FLOREN, Cashier. | Insist on War Department Canned Corned Beef and Corned Beef Hash. There are None Better. These meats were selected, cooked, prepared and canned by the leading packing houses of North and South America. under U. S. Government's most rigid supervision and inspection, Your dealer will realize a legitimate profit from the sales (the wholesale prices listed below), and you secure these delicious, appetizing foods at a mighty big saving whereby THE WHOLE FAMILY CAN Dine for a Day for a Dollar Ask your dealer to get you some today. Insist that he gives you the benefit of these nourishing meats at better than pre-war prices, THE WHOLESALE PRICES They will give you some idea of what you will save on your purchasen CORNED BEEF HASH CORNED BEEF Se per cam No. 1 ea SOc per cam No. are printed below. ms, 1Sc per can 8. 27C per s, 18c per can came, $1.00 per can TABLE OF DISCOUNTS Discounts to apply on all November 15, 1920, are ai § 250 to $1,000.. 1,001 to 2,500.. 2'501 to 4,000... 4,001 and over... Write to Depot Quartermaster at Brooklyn, N, Y., 59th St. and Firat Ave. LUrchasee of surplus canned meats on and alter foliows 5 percent 10 per cent (20 per cent Boston, Mass, Army Supply Base, Chicago, I, 1819 W. 39th St Atlanta, Ga, Transportation Bldg San Antonio, Tex. San Francisco, Calif, SURPLUS PROPERTY BRANCH Office of the Quartermaster General, Munitions Bidg. Washington, * CUMULATIVE PURCHASES COUNT reach $50,001, 24% net to when purchases reach prevail; when purchases 001, 32% met to pre- reach $1,000,001 and over, to ‘prevail. When pure $100,001, 28 } when pure MINIMUM ORDER ACCEPTED, $250 The Government will pay freight on carload lots to any point in the United State located more than twenty miles from shipping poigt. Buy It by the Case WAR DEPARTMENT CANNED MEATS Do, cw