The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1921, Page 6

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Hoboes or Men? army is marching today down the Pacific coast; an army is bivouacking these by a thousand wayside camp fires; an army of young men, of boys, of old men, visible means of support, without home ties, without much of anything but a more we have the tramp army with us and before winter ends the teamp army be brought forcibly to the attention of city and countryside. war, for the time, ended the tramp problem; the war proved that these men @ bums and hoboes neither feared work nor fighting, and while the war endured, ad while jobs were abundant and wages high, there were no tramps and few itinerant : ‘today there are nearly as many tramps as tourists on the highways, and there t as many men riding the brake beams as the cushions, of every walk in life, college men and farm lads, professional criminals and plain tramps and clever con men, a perambulating school of crime for the », and for the adventure-seeking runaway boys. is army, too, is each week being augmented by the workers who follow the har- til its close; by the fruit pickers, the timber workers, striking miners, season- of every class, men who are fitted to do the hard work of the world and seldom go tramping until they must. strange spectacle in a civilized country; thousands of able-bodied men sleeping in begging food from back doors, wandering here and there without anchor, with the nation’s life. "ny Necessarily Odd? men At the New York state grand lodge session of Odd Fellows, t Grand Master Hamilton spoke of sc forgiveness for the Germans. He said that the true spirit of Odd of Fellowship, as well as true Chris- have tianity requeres the forgiveness of « our enemies, Me spoke, said he, quitting for the brotherhood of man and aie the fatherhood ef God. Therefore, workers we should forgive the Germans. ‘This ts the unselfish, Christian way of stating it Many who think themecives fervent Chris- tans will reject the idea with herrer. Add “horrors of war.” If wars could be fought and forgot s ten half their evils would be abel- be run ished. rock Selfthty, the plea for forgive ness is quite as streng. He whe hand hates suffers from bis batred. bie Ludenderff preached the doctrine qurente of hate in Germany the other provides = day, but did mot get a mach sp him mew planse as be might have expected. and driven ‘The hater secretes in hb own t 4 and veins @ virus that benumbs his “a neo southern mentality, warpe bis judgment, sleep out lowers his vitality, and petty thievery @ebases him. The devil is a ‘The goed hater is subnormal. The ‘an unjust bymn ef hate ts the meron’s align pane rallying-cong. ' well reeruited, ‘The sad thing sbeut the episede ths rule of Is that this truly goed and Chris — tian u:terance many mark Its au- any able bodied msn thor not ently as an Odd Fellow, Oe ARecdhcn bogped bat an edd fellow. More's the beard bat, and wryly warm clothes. To this 755 tose made when Nature was ow sove.awe © Ss Daria. somenfien; bet women ry man who is honest, when ta. igilbscnciandingiieannlaeeeils him when be be Let's hope the last world fight will be that for disarmament, and beds encogh Bome men can’t fecl at home to work with their shocs on. sitions ———_——_——_— and pro A case of lquor costs more Pp when it gets in court, than their Its to begin ef the bettom Jobless men {/ you don’t stop there. that rely A Danger Signal— _ Tender and Bleeding Gums British notes to Ireland don’t end “Yours respectfully.” tainted with Py: are |. For not only the teeth are affected, but hea germs seep into the body, its vitality and cause many ills. Pyorrhea begins with tender and ry Four out of five people over forty have this disease. ol ode yale and gum i Forhan's For the check its 35c¢ and 60c tubes. FOR it. Visit your dentist often for ion. And keep Pyorrhea away by using Forhan's For the Gums. as Oe. prevent Pyorrhea—or ently. i dentifrices keeps the gums hard and healthy, the teeth whi Bet .de Syacnetetee ac le set i use Forhan’s uscartiog to aeactious, and pig dentist immediately for special treatment. in time and used consist- All druggists. Formula of R. J. Forhan, D. D. S. Forhan Co., New York —Forhan's, Ltd., Montreal THE GUMS Checks Pyorrhea The ex-katser (3 proving he & human by wanting to move | A Lincoln Story BY DR. WM. B. BARTON OOD Lincoln sto ries are none too ebundant, and when one cannot learn | new one, it is @ satisfac tion to get anew confirmation of an old one. - Everybody on the Pacific const seems to know the He ta the man they used to swear by. I dined with him a few days ago and he told me this story: when the Venezuclan Sir Stafford ry’s private foot what looked like an empty soap box. “Why, Mr. President™ he ex: claimed. “In England a gentleman never blacks his own boots.” Lincoln was not Gistuarbed. He Dlied his brash without raising his head very far, but still looked cheer fully at Sir Stafford as he asked: “Whose boots does he black?” The younger Sir Stafford North- cote laughed merrily, said Mr. Hil, in telling the story. It is a good stoxy, No man, by refusing to black his own boots, escapes the necessity of some kind of service. He may be proud of the labor he escapes, but something must take its place, if ft be nothing but the painfully bard. labor of killing time. If © man does not perform some useful labor, by what kind of harder labor does he get thru life? Whose boots does he black? Jin the United States and, Nothing Matter at M’Neils Bditor The Star: There is nothing wrong tn the way MoNoil Island penitentiary ts being run under Warden Thomas Maloney’s supervision, It i» the best managed institution of Ite kind possibly, the world, running with an eanc and smoothness which is conclusive proof of the best discipline under as broad-minded, humane and kind ad ministration a» is powsible in such an tnatitution, Tho occurrences of Labor Day, which you falsely my capped the climax of tneffictency, are couclusive proof of Just the opposite Within less than one minute after the three desperate men left the barbed wire enelosure, and the instant that it was wafe to fire, two of them were laid low and the other was followed so closely that he cannot escape from the underbrush on the island; altho in the meantime all had been com manded to stop and return, and shots were fired around them in stead of into them, in an effort to have them return without injuring them, These tacts speak for themselves and no tnatitution in any country could show more efficiency in its suards and management. Every tn- A Letter From Avridge Mann To The Home Brew Editor: Dear Mr. Brew: 1 saw your that #Aid you'd like some stuff to your collem out a little bit with stuff approximating wit, and yy was time your readers tried to help, con tribute, ald, provide And no, {t seems, it's up to me, be ‘ithe books and that {t would be re-| cause you mid KR. S V. P.. and! imagine, likewise, too, you inUmated P. D. Q. for I am net the one to yelp, when someone tells me “Go to help.” ‘ I haven't’ got your rectpe—pro. nounce it soze to rhyme with “see” | ~—and fo I do not know the trick of brewing stuff that haga kick, but I can tell you what I'd do, if you were Land I were you. I'd open up your readers’ eyen by The Mystery of the Dollar Editor The Star: I should like thra your paper to express my sympathy for Mr, Bab lantyne in bis struggle with the school board. I bad the same expertence two years ago when son Harold was about to enter the Broadway high school Son came home and reported that the teachers had said that he must bring $3. “What do they want $3 for, son?” I said. “I dont know, Dad, unless ft ts to pay for my books I am to use.” “All right,” I said, “here th the $3. Now you pay for the books and get @ receipt and bring the books “Thome with you this evening so I can eee them.” He camo home without the books and when I asked him why he did not bring them home he replied stitution must put trust and confi dence in some of the Inmates and, | if nome of them violate that confi dence, it in not the fault of the management, but every person who! ever escaped from thi institution | has been returned except two bakers | who had been trusted some years) ago to get’an early breakfast for the others, and every detective knows that the quiet way in the surest way of recapturing certain escapes. Of course, any tyrant can keep the prisoners locked up all the tune and drive them into igsanity or into their graves, and it does not) require any brains or efficiency other than turning a few keys, The effect, if not the intent, of your) | article would be to bring back such 4 reactionary management. Mon day's affair was not an escape, but an attempt to escape, and no one! can prevent an attempt of rash desperate persons even tho they were locked up. Justice requires! that you give this answer the same publicity that you gave the. ac cusation, Yoyre reepectfully, DANTEL O'CONNELL, Box 600, Steflacoom, Wash. WM. P. McCARTY, $22) Provident Bidg, Tacoma. | offering a dundy prize, not votes or ninety-eight in cash, for sending in a line to fit the verse as follows and | towilt “Willle, on September third, To his ma to say wae heard, n [ have @ proteel? |} And furthermore, | state, you'd have Bud Fisher filus-| trate the best Une published every | day; the “Best,” determined, by the | you'd bave to way, by & majority of two of Shakespeare, Whittier, and you. T haven't got the slightest doubt, if you would start this contest out | that you could rest {n peace and }trust your collem to swell up and bust. AVRIDGE MANN, your mother and I fancied that you wefs getting well educated.” “Not that you can notice tt, Dad, but I don’t think I want to go to school any more.” and we think he has learned more in the shop—more practical, useful knowledge--than he learned tn ncbool, besides drawing good pay got It, Like Mr, Ballantyne, I agree Iditor The Star: Your editorial, “Wanted, Job,” tn the Saturday issue was timely, good and appealing, and you can depend upon it that the thinking people agree with you. It ts a sad fact to admit that “Wanted, Job,” has become Seattie’s mont vital problem, and we all do well to look into this problem in lorder to have it solved in a right way. Honest, faithful and loyal workers are entitled to employment, and there can be no more distressing situation than when these good peo ple are seeking work and cannot find it. It is true we have to share « world-wide troubla We all have to suffer on account of the war, and Editor The Star: I have been reading the accounts in ‘The Star of the abuse of patients that one dollar is « emall matter but it is the principle of the thing that I am inquiring about, Who gets the benefit of all the money for it collected in this way? If the #chool Now the question that puzzles me | board collects one dollar from each is this: Why did the teachers hold |ohiid who goes to high school it out that dc They have stil!| must amount to quite a mum in @ year. DR. T. J, PIERCE Jobs—Up to Business Chiefs we will have to pay the cost of the war ans well as Woodrow Wilson's extravagant administrauon—an enor mous waste of money, and the only satisfaction is, unemployment, Let the producers, the skilled and ordin- ary laborer have a chance to work get the money in circulation, and serious suffering, destitution, starva tion, etc., shall be banished from our city and estate. The situation tn Beattie in” not worse than in any other large city, but could be better, and if the bust | ness leaders would unite in an in ltense stady of the vital problem |“Wanted, Jobs,” open up the vast resources, get the money in circula- tion, nobody in this beautiful city, state and county would need in vain to look for work. B, 0. CLAUSON. Another Sedro-Woolley Case certainly wrings my heart to think people can be such brutes; It is bad enough when patients are #o insane 4 | trips or junk or trash, but, aay, fourat Steilacoom and Sedro-Woolley. It [as to be upmanageable, but for AFTER WAR BY NINA MURDOCH da I can not bear these Yor then I hear the “Indeed? Now I should think that you would want to go. You) have had @ pretty soft Job, It seems. | what do you want to do?” “I want to go to work, Dad.” he| vaid. “I am now 14, going on 16. Can I go to work, Dadr” - | | } a8 soon as you can find @ job, but | ean tel you It won't be quite so jeary as the one you bad at the) Broadway High.” He found a job that mame Gay at good wages and has been hanging omo {t now for about three years, “That's what you can, som fast | — Fung wide and P) Or your Book first spring dayst The dreaming wonder ,of the alr; ‘The green mist dropping on the grass; The gold-deppled shadow there ‘That with the branches shifts and sways; The madrigals of birds that pass! small white gate creaking as of old. Hig step swings down the garden ways To whistled tune or carol trolled. A silence falls, 1 sit and wait, eee I ean not bear these first spring days! Try that be could not bring them home, | } that they school, “And 4i4 you pay the $37" “Yea, Dad, but the teacher said the money was only for the use of | stil belonged to the turned to me when I quit school”) “Very good, son,” I said, “then you are not required to buy your! books but don't forget to bring me! the money the last day of school,” | On the last day of school he) trought me $2 { “Where is the other dollar, son? | I said. “Did you spend itt” j “No, Dad,” be said; “they kept it for the use of the books. For wear and tear, they sald.” | “Very good, son, maybe ft was_ cheap enough. But please tell me) now, what'did you learn from the books?” “Nothing from the books, Dad. I never looked into one of them.” “You didn't. Well, what then did you go to the Broadway high for?” “Oh, more for fun than anything else. Someone would say something funny and the rest of us would laugh.” “You don’t say! 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I mailed candy, cake, and every- thing I thought he would enjoy, and wrote Superintendent Doughty that 1 would be glad to supply anything that added to his comfort, but waa not called on for anything. I made two trips to the hospital, and was shocked to find on my first visit that he was as emaciated as a tubercular patient—and to think Patients Uke that are fed miserable food twice a day. Later I made my second visit and took a basket of food. Superintendent Doughty was away, and the person in charge ine formed me that I could not give the boy anything to eat—not even of the jelly or-grape juice I had in my basket—and as has been stated by others, the ward was phoned in ad- vance to prepare for the visitors. ‘We were compelled to wait before being allowed to see him, then before going in they informed me that he had had a fall, and sustained bruises about his face. The only bruise on his face was as squarely over the eye as if someone bad planted his fist there. A friend of mine, who Is a nurse, accompanied me, examined the wound, and stated: “I don't believe he got that from a fall.” More than that, his underwear was s0 foul that one could scarcely sit near him. No wonder they tortid patients talking to visitors. Why, when visitors go there, cannot they be admitted to a sick person's bed- side as readily as at any other hos pital, excepting violently insane pa-, ents? When this boy died, about the only really good clothing he had left was a new overceat and a sweater, which was not in use two weeks be- fore be went there. They were not returned, but all the worn, dirty clothing was—and $4 in money that I had sent with the request that it be used for ice cream or anything ho wanted. That money was spent for flowers at his funeral. Why are they not humane enough to give a patient comforts provided by friends? 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