The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 20, 1921, Page 6

* ee ee ee ee ees 3 - ee 3 - a Ea 3 s = g Dew ewes ree mebrese This, then, Has it paid? therein? Organized Labor’s Opportunity The open shop battle between the employers’ organizations and the.A. F. of L. at Denver. ‘There were 4,078,740 members of the federation a year ago; there the year, a they overtook the fact that organized labor is being chal- as never before, BY DR. WILLIAM E. BARTON OMORROW, Tues- day, June 21, will be the longest day of the year. It is the offi. cial beginning of summer, which is | due to arrive promptly at 3:36 Pacific time. You put your straw some weeks ago under the im, pression that summer had ar- rived. She was here incognito, boarding with her older sister, spring. Tomorrow she arrives with her trunk, and she is scheduled to ‘remain for precisely 93 days, 19 “hours and 37 minutes. She will de part from the Pacific coast at 6:20 in the morning of September 23, will disappear from Denver an hour _Jater, from Chicago two hours later, end will wave her farewell to Broad ‘way and Beacon street at 9:20, mak ing way tor autumn, who on that day is to arrive. Tomorrow this northern hemis- phere, on Which we and the major fraction of the human race live, will bask for the longet possible period im the beauty of the sunlight. Real ly, autumn starts toward us the minute summer arrives, for the days hegin immediately to shorten. Tomorrow should be a great day on hat | tle at 4:09 a. m., and will continue at hard labor until 8:11 p.m. The time varies a little in different places, but wherever reckoned, the sun will punch the clock early and continue on the job as long as any honest man can desire, “Man works from sun to sun, But woman's work is never done.” So ran the rhyme in the old days before there were any eight-hour for work. The gun will rise in Seat-) The Seattle Star Ry mati, out of otty, 68 per month; 2 montha, $1.50; @ months, $2.75) year, $5.00, Im the state of Washington, 44.50 for @ monCha, oF $9.00 per year. Outside of the Ry carrier, city, Of the 104 20 have been “I won't di his desire for years. He was stil Since then tion to the o from the alms affairs wisely and in such con- formits with the general interest that it will overcome opposition by sheer force of the justice of its cause, Whatever abuses have grown up within the organization as the re sult of its increase in members and power must be relenticssly rooted out, in its own interest, and as an act of faith ih its relation to the employers and to the general pub- He. Lost, Strayed or 8tolen: Albert Einstein. Dr. Generous Julius The papers did Julius Krutt- sehnitt an injustice when they sald that he was opposed to canals, Improved waterways and roads. He now has confided to us just what his attitude is with reference to these highways of commerce. What he waats is laws “which will keep on the railways traffic which is tending to other means of transportation.” He is not opposed at all, he says, to the Panama canal, inland wa- terways and modern roads. All he is opposed to is the use of them! te Publiahed 1s by The St Publianing 800 per month, 00 @ month. , pathetic face, and the fiiman passion peering from it. is a lesson in the futility of hate. years engraven upon it, devoted to bitter and re- lentless anger. e until | get my man,” says Melino Spidello, who has nursed vengeance for a score of la hale vineyard worker of 83 when he was victimized by a fel- low employe and robbed of $15. he has hunted his man, ° hugging to his withered heart the ven- detta that has grown out of all propor- inal wrong. Periodically he walks five miles house, where he is an in- mate, to the sheriff's office at San Jose, Cal., hopeful of the coveted arrest and the hour of reckoning. “Ll keep going until I get him,” vows Spidello, on the march into his second century. “Years mean nothing until I have had my revenge. After that—well, | shall be content.” as s the tragic history of Melino Spidello. It accounts for the som- ” ber wrinkles in the old man’s face. Each line has been etched by the hand of Let the picture answer. Do you see love, happiness, the :placidity of age Spidello sacrificed everything else so that he might hug the nursling Hate to | his breast. _ It repaid him with the bitterness that is worse than Death. He has made a beloved thing of his anger, and it enslaved him and is driving him thru the sunset years of life, a hag-ridden example of what human passion can do. : ‘Let not the sun go down upon thy wrath,” says the Bible, and Spidello’s » strange case is but another instance of the wisdom of the age-old adage. An Ill We Do Not Have Hordes of ants, eating tunnels thru wood, threaten to destroy all interlor woodwork of the livestock exchange building in Wichita, Kan. In a battle of wits with man, the ants made sawdust and used it to bridge sticky NMypeper spread to halt them. We are conquering files, moths and mosquitoes in Seattle, though we are fortunate in their never having been a bad pest here, Ants don't bother us much. If they did, we'd have our hands full, for sci- entiste say that, next to man, ants have the most intelligence of any living thing. They keep insect cows, war in armies, and have po- lice and jails. Bolshevik government offers prises for the best fairy stories. Prodably gathering material for fresh prom- ises to the Russian people. When Pons and Winnecke discov- ered their comet they found some- thing to make a few people say their prayers Buen the birds would have acet- dents if they tried to do acrobat- fea in the air, I was not reared on a farm, but T had @ taste of farm work for three years, and my recollection is that tomorrow would make just about a good average day as we used to labor then Congressional Record _—_——$ $$$ MONEY MAKES MONEY If a man’s yearly income is $100, 000, a 5-per cent tax-exempt bond is worth to him over 8 per cent; if his income is $300,000 a year such a bond is worth to him under the tax ation laws about 15 per cent; if his income is over haif a million dollars it is worth to him over 22 per cent What is the effect? Instead of in come being invested in business in this country it is tied up in tax-ex empt bonds.—Senator Smoot (R.), Utah eee THE FLAG In that flag we see the heroism of Lexington; we see the farmers at Concord bridge; we see John Paul | Jones riding the crest of the wave | we he |the ruined Alamo; we can hear the jinf for unanimous consent for five minutes more in which to finish his speech, his colleague, Mr. Herrick, I object. The gentleman has been making that speech ever since the civil war.) § Jaws. Some of us can remember a days of work on the farm which were adjusted as to length to the wummer solstice. If the sun did not get up at 4:09, we did, and thus re buked the sun; and we made up for the slacking of Old Sol in the even- ing with a lantern by whose light | awe did chores The income tax department poris that o 40 men in tive of New York have income: 100,000 and more; only 48 have $500. 006 $750,000, and only 48 have | $400,000 to $500,000. How on earth Ido you suppose the rest of the pop- ulation manages to live? re tate r the clarion death call above | prayers of Washington at Valley Forge; we can hear the sobbings of Lincoln as he walked the floors those midnight hours; over and above all, my friendg, we can see | |the windswept faces of 70,000 of our boys who died on the thunder smitten hilly of France for that flag.—-Rep. Pringey (R.) Okla | CNOTE: Upon ‘Mr. Pringey ask $1,-| Schools should be a lot less so- licitous about their entrance require | | ments and a lot more so about their |requirements for graduation.Jobn |Merle Cooper, University of Chi cago professor eee Much of the crime in the world can be traced directly to fatigue, for |fatigue puts a black cloud on your |vision of duty—The Rev, Leonard Barrett, Ann Arbor (Mich.) clergy man eee | Deaf children, instead of being stupid, are atfhormally bright.— Jessie C. Hume, Boston social work- er. eee Blame the newspapers for making the role of the criminal harder day than it was 20 or 30 years ago. M. C. Elmer, sociology expert, Uni. versity of Minnesota o. . Liberty bonds will be within the next three Friday, University nomics expert back at par years David of Michigan eco | SETH TANNER pa, na too fast is too slow. ere’s only one thing prettier than @ baby; that’s twins, to | THE & About this time of the year I get Weary of worry and work and fret And « world all turmol! and toi! and sweat Where I'm but & helpless pawn; And I close my eyes and dream I'm out Where there's never a thing to: think about, " And where I can lie like « lazy lout Just le In the grass—-and yawn! JOh, just to doze thru an idle day With never a move to work or play, | pay, |But only to loaf, in my own sweet way, LET SEATTLE STAR Wirvana Berton Braler On the turf of a rich green lawn, While out of half closed orbs, 1 spy ‘The busy people go hurrying by But I'm not hurrying, no, for I Would Me on the grass Alas, it’s only a dream, I know. There are thing® to buy, and then bills I owe, And a job to hold, of course; and #0 I toll with my brain and brawn Rut anyhow 1 can dream, I guess, Of having nothing to do--or less; oan nd yawn! A vision of absolute la. To lie in the gran» tile Star.) 1921, by Be S10 EDITOR] SATTLE mail carriers would like to receive from “Disgusted,” the author of a letter that appeared on the 16th In this col umn, some more definite information regarding the miseon duct on street cars with which she charged various carriers William Daughters, of Branch 79, National Association of Lette prompt nce whe or anybody else anxioug to retain for their service the very Telquist, president; F, Daly, secretary Carriers, say they further evi more than will give are reputation it has always enjoyed for high class personnel. Editor The Star: ‘of May Mrs. M. EB. Bass, In answering & letter of L. M. Clarke which &p) |peared in your paper of an carlier | date, Mrs. Bass makes the state- |ment that “if Mr. Clarke will inves lugate, he will find that the drive was to enable the schoo! clinic to live.” I do not blame Mrs, Bast tor be leving this, for she probably was misinformed, as was | and many an other, by the doctors on the street the day of the referendum “drive However, if Mra, Bass will invest! gate, she will find that the “drive” was against substitute senate bill 180, which had nothing to do with the school clinic. The school clinic ceased “to live” on account of an} injunction, granted by the supreme court of the state, which decided that the clinic had been maintained tile: | gally with the funds of the school district, The referendum “drive” was for the purpose of attempung to undo what our state representatives had done in the legislature when they any 4 @ bill providing “thata par ent guardian having control or charge of any child enrolled in any public school in districts of the first class of the state may file annually with the principal of the school in which he is enrolled, a statement in writing, signed by such parent or guardian, stating that he will not consent to the physical examination of his’ child, and thereupon such child shall be exempt from any physical examination; provided fur- ther, that whenever such practicing physician or graduate nurse shall tn good faith have reason to believe that such child is suffering from a contagious or infectious disease, such child may be examined for such con. tagious or infectious disease and if jfound #0 infected shall be sent home and such parent or guardian shall be notified of the reason therefor, and then such child shall not be AY vice-president, and John and thoro attention to any might present and that they high Keditor THE SCHOOLS AND HEALTH In your paper permitted to return to school until % you printed a letter from|the school authorities are satisfied that such child is not suffering from such contagious infectious dis ease Mra Bass also says in her letter that vaccination is not compulsory and that the children “had the right to stay home for two weeks if they or thelr parents so desired.” No, vaccination, according to the school law, ig not compulsory; but the stay ing home for two weeks, according to Health Commissioner Read, is; and merely because vaccination has been conscientiously refused. It is unjust to discriminate between the vaccinated exposed child and the un nated exposed child, since Dr Read has admitted publicly that vac cination after exposure does not pre vent smallpox 1 agree with Mrs, Bass that chil dren should be clean and sweet smelling; but it doesn’t take a medi cal corps to keep them so. The aver. age teacher can detect uncleanliness and no child who ts dirty should be admitted to school. Mrs, Bass also arks: “Does Mr. Clarke know that there are people in Seattle and elsewhere who are #0 poor they cannot afford to pay to have tonsils and adenoids removed from their little ones?” I tmagine that L. M. Clarke has surmised this, but perhaps agrees with me that the school should function for the purpose of educa tion only. That is its only reason for existing. We have a city hospital and it is a free hospital; and poor parents who wish to take their children there to have tonsils and Adenoids removed are at liberty to do so. We all help to pay for this Hospital, just as we do for the public library and the public school. The hospital is free, so is the library, and so is the public school in this sense, but it should also be free in a broader sense, and free from medical exploitation. MAUD TIBBALS. or BEINGS WHO SNEER AT HEROES Editor The Star; I wish to say @ few words in regard to the young men who sneered at a wounded world war veteran. | How sad it ix to know that there are a few (let ys hope, a very few) turned maimed heroes. What soldier, do to promote peace? fought for them in the trenches! Can |they be men? No, they cannot be red-blooded patriots! How they are in how appalling it is to discover such disloyal citizens! carried op, and smiled. Thru the |hospitals their faith and hope lived on. This veteran was one of these boys. Now the war is ov + and our boys Editor The Star | Jw it any wonder that conditions in jour schools are as described in the letter signed “A CITIZEN,” printed in your issue of May 31, when a paper can be found which will pub- lish «tuff Uke that in the editorial foliowing the letter? If correct peech is am abomination and poor pelling no crime, why have schools? The writer is under the impression that our schools are for the purpose of “teaching the young idea how to shoot,” and to give our children an all‘round good literary education— to fit them to take their places cred itably in any company of normal thinkers. How long would a stenographer, secretary, school teacher or editor nothing left? Answer to Saturda: long days of patient waiting in the | who do not show respect to our rej cots let us give them a smile, did| we meet them on the street let us these men, who eneer at a wounded | cheer Moet are proud of them! jlikely they were slackers and no doubt the worst kind of dodgers.| more And then they mock Thru the din of battle our boys} we Try This on Your Wise Friend From what number can you subtract 10, multiply the remainder by 3, find the square root of the total and from such square root subtract 18 and have 941. (1 is the smallest part.) have come back, some of them maimed and others filled with unfor gotten memories of the battlefield We may fee them in the hospitals and on the streets. The faithful boys have done their “bit. When we see them in the hospital When them. Show these boys. we This veteran says the sneers hurt than his wounds, but let us those who|show this soldier that there are only a few who are so contemptible as to make such remarks about one cheap|who has sacrificed on the altar of the eyes of men, 4nd | freedom. Let us honor and respect our returned heroes, They are the flower of America’s manhood and are proud of them. May God bless our wounded heroes and let us pay homage to our valiant boys who defended our flag. May our memory of their deeds outlive all else. MISS JENNIE BERG, 1824 Yale a THE EDUCATION THAT WE NEED hold out who is a poor speller or grammarian? Can you name a pro- fession or business in which a good education is not indispensable, or at the least calculation, a valuable as- set? Is it not a fact that that na- tion is always the weakest where people are the most illiterate? Really, Mr. Editor, I consider your much-vaunted patriotism — mere veneer if it does not extend to a keen appreciation of the value to this country of a people with well- trained intellects; and this brings us to the subject of “mental defectives” which was discussed editorially in a recent issue of your paper. Wonder if our school system has anything to do with this evil? E. C. JACKSON, 1602 26th Ave, CHAS. SCHWARTZ Optometrist and Mfg. Optician Gyen Examined and Glassen Fitted Tel. Main 2651, We dye your rags and old carpets and weeve them inta handsome rugs. The Fuzzy Wuzzy Rug Co. Phone Capitol 1233 and yawn!) ae es emanate = os pause “THE UPHILL ROAD” By RUBY M. AYRES (Copyright, Hodder & Stoughton) (Continued From Saturday) ped him on the back and shook hie laughed, looking at Ferrier's great He sighed, turning it off shame | limbs, unresponsive hand heartily. |faeedly into a laugh The sofa will do me,” said Fer-| “Going to have some dinner? I" or hoar Micky sing?’ he asked| rier. “I've slept on many a worse) dered mine, but if I may Jol suddenly bed than, that, but I'm only up for ey” a He ae blog pte “No, we cou ever & | one night. I must go back tomor-| “By all means,” sa n uick-~ shee He on 1 he hated oune" row.” ” ly; he Porgy akon no rier rr be. Ant “Rot! Why, down at High Chim-| oh T my! Rott y eye a ngs or hoe seal) P neys-—" he broke off. “I du y | neatly! ¢ eniy san up, fore few) bee ssiehedh to, se Ferri there were associations,” he added) "OUr® | promisef Hastings 14 go ines vig th “ ihe a Fs soberly. “And music's the very] ok tomorrow evening. 1——" “Tm going to Introduce you undje’ devil for’ waking up memory, eh?” Kapena peti tinagr a tha nid whe e be pie riots j ‘ae guppenieae ee , The—the men I'm staying with." Til explain efterwards” | Pi Ferrier thought of tho little room Rodeg Mh tet Treas laughea,| Major returned in a few secondmglll: Min facing the a where a girl in Alt Way @ mintake—don't walt for|h@ Was wearing faultiees even ard blue frock had sat and flung her} on. see etn walk.” | dress, and the diamond ring on Ame moc king song “a wer ; wes “My ‘boy, when you've been in| /eft hand was much, very much, Va 1 know 8 ‘eaten air to seo—takel yas an jong on I bave yeu get evidence Be took 5 ‘wank ae ho Hastings got up and crossed over | 0Ut Of the way of using your legs.) 6 wate Fd esa 4 wh to the piano, He sat down sidewive| 1 never walk a step Dow unless i ppg the Manse eg se bag" on the stool and began to play softty.| 0"t help tt." He rang the lift bell, Ferrier introduced hi He had tt usician's touch; the in.|#"4 leaned idly aguinst the gates} (00° ae aibert: sina $100 strument seemed to an to hin} *éiting. The two men shook hands. Thane lithe fingers as if it loved to feel i walk”.seid' Weerier. 30> Went) 1 comics! lout 08 emaiiaes them on its ivory keys. Ferrier ls. down the stone staircase two at a Hi penton! 10st 0S aemerets time. He waited in the hall below tings’ face. ‘ tened silently “Yond of music?” asked Hastings across his shoulder Delighted to meet yon,” he Major chatted away very much he had done during the little @ibp for Hastings. “You really mean to go back to- Yes, but I'm not good at it I've morrow?” asked Hastings as they 3 a got a Voice like a crow-—used to sing | W4/ked up the Strand together. Dee party Wo See Dee ae ‘I'm afraid I must, but later on|“t Bastwea; he retold one or t the chorus to other chaps’ songs out . 1 shall be back in town again.” stories which he had alrady related |there, but I'm not good at any- . | thing.” id 4 a “Right—well, you're always wel- park pee niger i paid fo | Hastings glanced over his power-| ome. Where shall we go? I'm a] © Ny gars, and when the mi |ful figure quizzically, then he| bit peckish, what do you say to Mera over he attempted to pay th laughed. “You can't have it alll some supper? There's a place along)”; , ways,” he said good-naturedly, He, here.” ' Porrier's big hand closed over » ee J;wung around aguin and began to! Ferrier assented, and they walked) Paper as in a vice, a eee play a few dreamy chords some way further, till they reached] oun kon that's my affair, eles This was Micky's old song,” he|@" unpretentious looking restaurant. | | 4 Acted the waiter a generous tip, J said. “Fancy you never having| “It's small, but they can feed you| “4 followed the other two men out to Jheard it! He began to sing with-| * said Hastings, as he led thel ‘Op the street, out waiting for any comment | way in. Ci yap now, what's the program? He hud not much of a voice, It] Ferrier followed. A couple of sieek| (iMstinks asked Jovially. He i t Italian walters stared at him won-|fU24 Major most entertaining. Hi tior was quite untrained, but, as is often could not understand Ferrier’s the way, perhaps it was all the| deringly, a fat manager with oiled sweeter for that hair and @ sham diamond stud in| ‘Ud, altho for the moment he é Does the road wind up-bill all the| his shirt came forward obsequiously pea oo eecent | Zour tae a wayt Hastings led the way to @ corner is me he plays cards—what a Yes, to the very end. table. omen ne a ae oe Will the day's journey take the| “What will you have?” he asked. was whole long day? “Oh, anything, a steak——” ou promised me a theatre,” rier said quickly. “I’ve only been | @ couple since I came home. about the little dancer?” “Steak! Nonsense, man, when there are oysters, and heaven alone knows what?” From morn till night, my friend.” He broke off suddenly “Poor old Micky! He's found it an “ up-bill road, I'll warrant Here,| “A steak will do for me.” owe a tiled erihoes : cheer up! You look about as pleas Hastings shrugged his shoulders) \ 04), ish face. “I'm gam ant ax a funeral! Have another|amusedly. He ordered steak and po-| "© & taxicab. 4Ank! No? Well, then we'll go out.| tatoes for Ferrier and oysters and| Fe upied the srpall seat by] ae What do you say?” champagne for himself. While they | himse! long legs cramped un. fm “Anything you like.” Ferrier rose| waited, he called for @ ginand-bit-| Comfortably. Major laughed and ve gladly, The cozy room, with its| ters. chattered the whole way; he told¥f «1 home comfort, and Micky’s song had| “I believe in doing things well,”| Hastings that he and Ferrier were@™ begun to get on his nerves, Hel be naid. both staying with the same peopl F wanted to get away from it Has-| Ferrier laughed. ‘There wag so| that they were returning tomorrow} he tings had spoken truly when he said| much of the inconsequential boy| “You'd like old Hastings if youl that music the very devil for| about this man. knew him,” he added, “Eh?” vaking up memory “1 don't blame you," he said.) ened across and nudged Fer “Let's go out,” he said abruptly, | “Hullo—” he broke off, as a hand! Confidentialty. “Like whom?” The light from a passing lamp shone on Ferrier's face; was frowning warningly. H subsided into perplexed silence. “Like old Hastings,” Major (Continued on Page 9) Every Meal” SUDECONOUDAEDOOOULOCUIO Hastings glanced at him oddly, but he made no comment, and the two men went out together. u'll have to share my room,” said Hastings as he slammed the little front door, “You won't mind that. It's not very big——* was laid on his shoulder, and found himself face to face with Major. “My dear old boy, who would have thought of finding you here!” Major greeted Ferrier very much as if he were a bosom friend whom He! he had not seen for years; he clap- mae 2 2 atc af Next time you want to concentrate on a plece of work Just slip a stick of WRIGLEY’S between your feeth. {t's a wonderfal help in daily tasks — and sports as weil, if that 13th hole on the course has been getting your goat — try WRIGLEY’S. DAMA Hazards dis- appear and hard places ‘come easy — for WRIGLEY’S gives you comfort and Hl MMM yy a (t adds a zest that means success. 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