The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 21, 1921, Page 6

Published Datt Wages, Rates and “Legal Rights” : Samuel Felton, president of the Chicago & Great Western failroad, in a formal state- it made for the association of railroads entering Chicago, says: “The thing it is pro- to strike against is the decision of the railroad labor board authorizing the re- _ of 12 per cent in wages which the railroads put into effect on July 11, 1921.” $ That isn’t exactly true, but let it pass and hear Mr. Felton proceed: “While the ‘ailways complied with the decision in 1920 for an advance in wages, the labor erhoods now propose to defy the law and strike rather than accept a much ‘mailer reduction in wages.” The railroads did not “comply” with the law. They made a hard and fast bar- that if the outrageous freight increases were written into the law and so al- lowed to be saddled upon the farmers, manufacturers, merchants and consumers of t country, the billion and a half extra money would be “cut” on an agreed basis be- the roads and their employes. Then they appealed to have the wages cut. Wages were cut and now, four months later, the men, seeing no relief in cost living thru reduced freight rates, think that they have" been swindled, and say han will strike. | Well, they have been and are being swindled. So is the public. This was ordered effective July 1, The railroads are ing the spirit of the law all to smithereens while their foxy lawyers tell them to avoid breaking its letter. Mr. Felton goes on to say, “The railway employes have no more legal right to fe against it than the railroads would have and to refuse to grant the advance wages authorized in 1920 by the labor board.” Except that the railroads, having accepted the advance in wages in 1920, wiggled on July 1, 1921, keep their increased rates, twiddle their thumbs at congress, the president of the United States to help them get a new half billion of cash out tthe United States treasury, start more “legal” machinery in action to reduce wages further 10 per cent. And their spokesman, President Cuyler, of the Association f Railway Executives, says bluntly that in any event the new reduction of wages, will make a total of 224 per cent reduction, will not mean any reduction of tht rates. Pendulum Again pepatc! from Lisbon tell of © overthrow of the republican . by monarchists, i ‘these days the restoration @ throne is reactionary—but ty surprising. the chaos which attended | cosing days of the war and je opening days of = the went mad. with the os of -@orens of countries threw groweth all unseen ; yet found the explana- for it being the most widely novel in many years, you be interested in this para ched alone with Sinctair at the Shoreham. He is a Bohemian, full of imagina- . One of the few Amerivans f have met who is not sub- tged by domesticity, altho he ie married. He tells me he wrote or five novels before he ¢ ‘Main Street,’ but they were | From Clare Sheridan's Diary in the November —- Nobody can decide whether the in stays out all day or stays out mont. "he Procession Moves Machinery steadily invades all fields of romance. Whalers harpoons from an electric Sperry invents a device soclety thieves. Before Jong the inventors may force even It to disband and @ new society to catch air- One way to keep others off your toes is be on them yourself. “Congress Klan Probe’’—headline. Id sure klan. All war paths lead to ruin. LETTERS TO EDITOR | A Letter From Avridge Mann Mr. Peter Witt, Seattle, Wash. Dear Pete, we gladly welcome you for all the things that you will 40 about the bunch of cars and tracks that cost us fifteen million smacks, and made the little jitmey go because it copped a bit of dough. Your hundred sixty buckg a day Is nothing if you earn your pay? tho I admit it listens dear, when we'v® so many experts here, for all the men I ever knew, can tell exactly what to do, Your job is easy as can be-—there isn't much to do, you see; for all we want ix nickel fare, with will never have to wait to get a Don't mind the trolley-weary better service everywhere, so we car when we are late. men who want the jitneys back Again; just fix it so the books will show the"Cars are earning lots of dough, and paying off the million bones gratulty we owe the Stones. In spite of what the mayor wired, we'd hate to see you getting fired; for as we see the trolley row, from when we bought it until now, the whole blame business, we admit, has greatly been in need of Witt. AVRIDGE MANN, K. K. K. Unfair to Negroes’ lo, when none do look thereon Editor The Star: In reading the letter that asks fair play for the K. K, K. and seeing that nobody had protested against | F. L. B.'s opinions, I have decided | that his statements cannot go by un- challenged. Any fair-minded person would be against such an organization which would not allow equal rights to the colored people. How About Georgetown Bank? | Editor The Star: The everlasting gratitude of all depositors of the defunct Seandi- navian-American Bank of Seattle to your fearless onslaught and splendid success prompts me to suggest that there is another defunct institution deserving of attention, rly & year ago, the Citizens’ of Georgetown closed its and state officials assumed Depositors received notice Bank doors, control, The Eskimo and the Movie Editor The Star: I noticed in the October 7 issue of your paper an article in reference to the Eskimos, and as I am an Alaskan and a resident of Nome, and have been since long before Nome boasted a theatre, I naturally know something of the Eekimos, and I feel just a little bit surprised at see ing such a statement printed in The Star, inasmuch as it is thoroly er. roneous (Editor's note! The article said: "The Eskimos pay the admission price, but for some superstitious reason refuse to enter the theatre They insist on standing at the en trance to watch the performance None ever cracks a smile while the Picture is on, They laugh after it's over, spending 10 minutes laughing and slapping each other on the back.") The Eskimos are far from timid when it comes to entering a moving picture show, which is the only show | or theatre in Nome—on the ¢ Third Ave UNINER SITY 1221 Cor {Ne wonder the negroes hate the K. K. K. They have been tortured and lynched by them. The Kian's by. laws may be all right, but they cer- jtainly cannot believe in freedom, since they refuse equal rights-to the | negroes, Any man who Is a lover of freedom is against those who sup- | press it. | A lover of freedom and a white! |man, B. B. SCHOLTENS. | i King County Hospital ij | with @ request to send in proof of claims. Creditors were made to liquidate Since that time, not a line or word has been heard by the depost- tors, They simply know that high priced lawyers, receivers, stenogra. phers, clerks and roustabouts are feasting upon the assets, ' I believe here is a small field ‘you can plow and produce much public benefit, Yours truly R. A. CASE. i trary, the Eskimos, old and young,” Jare ardent movie patrons, and you if OR. 3. n. HINTON Free Examination Best $2.50 GLASSES on Earth grind lenses from start to finish, end | we are the only one in SEATTLE—ON FIRST AVENU Examination free, by graduate op- bed tometrist. Giasses not pres BINYON OPTICAL co. unless absolutely necessary. 1116 FIRST AVENUB i } proverb: aaaadegiiilmmoosssss. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 192 (PLAYING THE GAME _| We do not say of him, “He moeting his fate like @ hero.” = W “He ja a man of admir able fortitude.” We see him a buttons his sorrow or diw ment inside his own vest, and taker up hig disagreeable task without any ion or complaint, and we “That man playing the This form of speech condemned as flippant. It has a quality too fine for that. A sort of grim humor underlies it, and a ulne perception of what men and ought to admire. There jx good precedent for this raul indulged n if a man w nd ‘Win, he wouldn't © prize unl he | aceording to the rules of the game He tain, in not to be BY DR, WM. BE. BARTON | HERE iw & popu our § ing uation, but do it nobly and whin do not say 1 tha explan say, game Yes, and he is playing to win, man can fall who faces misfortune with hefolc determination, The bat tle is already won In his own spirit ‘The man ,who faces the fight #0 ing bes aid, “So run that ye may ob- That is to say, “So play that you may win.” We was ikely to face death in the arena, and he knew of it as a game he n uering that sort kill him, as they ne dies a winner. without ing, men him that he i playing = the K "It would h to give to those words a very No THE her aa BY HELEN EMMA MARING The happlest hours know dreams, sublime And the dreams are lives for some of man. ¥ The ocean brima full at the flood-tide time | bravely that his friends forget shat PS med H When our ship of dreams has come ferent and leas likabie significance:| he ig in a life and death struggle ale % as it is, we all understtand what/and speak of it as a game, perceive men mean, and we honor the man of| something of the real significance whom these words are spoken, ! of his heroism he sp wns to pl There was no ait Acquainted Night,” it's, 1604 4th —4Adv.) Dance * | Tues, at E The happlest hours are on the stream By the heart-trail’s secret way On the riv prung from the land of dream. Where the soullife lives its day The happlest hours that you may know Are when things you had to do Are done; and the dream-path lets you go To the land where dreams come truc |may see any afternoon, of evening, |movie theatre many times when Ew lif @ show is on, a mother Eskimo |kimos were so numerous as to com with her family, anywhere from one |pletely spoil the possibility of enjoy to a dozen youngsters, standing |Ing the picture, and being con around waiting for a chance to get|to seek the outside to avold nausea |tickets, and if you should venture |! cannot but feel that ‘The Star print: into the theatre yourself, you would ed the article mentioned without very soon become aware of the fact| having made much of an effort at that superstition did not prevent the| establishing ita reliability, and I Erkimos enjoying either a Charlie | believe the editof§of The Star would Chaplin or any other picture, for|not deliberately print an untruthfut when an Eskimo goes to a show, he! statement, is never without gum, which he pro} Misleading statements ceeds to chew with all the energy} Alaska and the Exkimos necessary to produce a steady crack-|/the rule rather than the ing sound, much to the annoyance |in nearly all of the “outxh of any white individual seated in his | ana vicinity, Asso, there is ever present strong and more or less offensive |absolutely authentic odor of seal oll and fish, which in a|me why? warm room becomes extremely un: | pleasant. So, having been in the’ Try This on Your Wise Friend These letters, properly arranged, will make a popular |! What is it? | 128 and 1024, } lative to to be ption pers, often one from Alaska is |shocked at seeing the most impos) the |sible things printed purporting to be Can you tell| Respectfully yours, VESTA LER. On Your Table Answor to yesterday's: 16, | Snow Flakes appeal to men as | well as women—and supply just that touch so essential when you entertain your best friends. g MOTHER! Move Child’s Bowels With “California Fig Syrup” Hurry mother! Even a sick child) little bowem s orten all that ia nec loves the “fruity” taste pt “Califor: | nia Pig Syrup” and it never failx to| open the bowels. A teaspoonful to. day may prevent a sick child tomor | row. If constipated, bilious, feverinty, fretful, has cold, colle, or if stomach | You must say is sour, tongue coated, breath bad,| may get an imitation fig syrup. Temember a good cleansing of the | vertisement Don't ask for Crackers— Ask your grocer for . say SNOW FLAKE a} ST NOwr PACIFIC COAST BISCUIT CO., Seattle, Wash. druggist for genuine up” which has and children of Mother! or you Ad: | gen print ‘Singerman” Says: “Break the Vicious Circle” When some one stops BUYING some one stops SELLING, hie some one stops SELLING some © one stops MAKING, when some one stops MAKING some one stops Wk dai he when some one stops WORKING some one Starts Starving when everybody stops buying---You know the answer ‘These Prices Should Start People Buying Suits and Overcoats Dutchess Trousers $3.00 11.25. $3.50 $4.00 $5.00 $6.00 $6.50 $7.00 $7.50 $8.00 Winter Underwear $3.50 Union - $1.95 $5.00 Heavy Union . -$2.50 $3.50 Heavy Union .. - $2.85 $5.00 “Globe” Union . -$3.85 $6.00 Union - $3.50 $6.50 “Globe” Union . - $4.85 $1.00 Two-Piece ...T5¢ $2.00 Two-Piece large sizes... .81.00 2.50 Two-Piece Winsted. . $1.85 $3.50 Two-Piece Army $1.95 $3.50 to $5.00 2- Piece Medlicott .$2.95 ‘ Dress and Working Shirts $1.50 Values $1.50 Collar Attached $2.00 Values $3.50 to $5.00 Values . $5.00 Fiber Silks . $7.50 Pure Silks«. . REGULAR 25-CENT SOX $25.00 Values . ‘ ‘$18.75 $11.25 3 PAIRS FOR 50c All Hats and Caps 1-4 Off E. & W. COLLARS—TO CLOSE OUT—2 FOR 25 CENTS The above reductions are an index to the cuts we have made on everything we sell. Bring this ad with you and verify our statements . “ 5.00 Values Values Values Values Values Values .. Values Values Values .. Values .. Values .. Values .. Values Values Values Values .. Values’... Values .. Values -.. Values .. Values .. Values .. $8.50 Values .. $9.00 Values .. $10.00 Values ... $10.00 Values . $15.00 Values .. $18.00 Values .. $20.00 Values ... $71.50 Values $22.50 Values .. $10.00 Values .. Values .. 3.50 Values $15.00 Values THIRD AND PIKE THIRD AND PIKE “That LIVE Corner”