The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 27, 1921, Page 6

as the experience of “A Crime Against Mankind” ‘L. H. Darwin, who is retiring from the office of state fish commissioner, did the . of this state whom he has served for eight years a-real service by again warn- Governor Hart of the ruin that selfish interests are bringing to the state’s salmon “Unfortunately,” said Darwin, “the idea has been all too prevalent to let those en- in the industry have the entire say concerning it. an interest in perpetuating and maintaining our food and phell fishery, com- with which the right of any individual, no matter how great his investment sinks into insignificance. seems to me to be a crime against mankind—against those who are here and the generations yet to follow—to let the great salmon runs of the state of be destroyed at the selfish behest of a few individuals, who, in order to themselves, would impoverish the state and destroy a food supply of the The people of this state the past season has conclusively proved, that is exactly what is now happening—rapidly. The blind pressure of competition has been driving the cannerymen along this de- ‘This condition of unemployment & a serious and a tragic oye. We | @re denied, by the obstinacy of “some members of this conference Committee in the house, a paltry } $100,000 to find relief for 4,000,000 Of unemployed who are suffering, Bot thru fault of their own, not : use of the consequences of the Mar, but because of the stupidity Of our government policy. We need fo avert a calamity which is not away; yet, for even a study of condition of unemployment, we denied, by the obstinacy of the conferees, a paltry $100,000.-— tor France (R.), Maryland. Bome of the world’s finest diplo- Mats are in Washington while @thers are handling street car ‘erowds. After killing off 20 many guides, Runters hereafter should let their fonactence be their guide. The Fast Age Marvhal Foch, on his American tour, traveled 20,000 miles in 47 days. An average of about 100 miles a day! He traveled on 36 different rail- foads, toured 32 states, paused in 200 cities and towns, made 300 ppeeches, attended 200 banquets, Planted trees, dedicated buildings, laid cornerstones and was seen and heard by an estimated 15, 000,000 Americans. That is a lot to pack into 47 days. Tt iflustrates the fast age in which we live All made possible by that magic marvel — modern transportation methods, the conqueror of space and time. se Compare this triumphal tour by Foch, conqueror of the Germans, with Julius Caesar traveling 30 Miles a day in chariot or on a lit- fer borne on the shoulders of Nubian slaves 26 miles in * eoeriot, over ciate, Caerar must have i BME Dr reves rot nssunaneaen toon cin acanmateeneca live path. The people have sat idle while the devastation progressed. is time for every patriotic citizen to demand a halt to the mad folly. “A strong ”” as Sunset magazine recently phrased it, “has to take charge, make the needed and see that they are enforced.” into effective action along this line an important accomplishment will have been If Mr. Darwin's warning stirs Governor All a man gets by arguing with his wife is in d. People who buy oil stock invest and then in- vestigate. Wouldn't it be grand if we all made what we claim we do? Napoleon met his Waterloo and every shirt meets its laundry. Only way to keep the hatchet buried is to put the hammer with it. ached from the jolting and lost period of human history, The all desire to be a tourist. transportation system that made Contrasted with this, Feeh Foeh's trip possible is onty one of winds up & 20,000-mile trip, steps the many evidences of that. out of the Pullman palace car and And, no doubt, our modern returns home— somewhat tired ‘Tansportation will seem crude to but none the worse for wear. future generations, just as we ‘There is more comfort even in Oh beck to chariots and stage a day coach on the railroad than ome. the ancient emperors had with all their fabled “luxury.” ‘The age of machinery has made ancient luxuries of kings the every-day, matteroffact necemi- tes of the average man in 1921. Notwithstanding diminution in the Personnel both in the army and in the navy, we have been promoting officers by the score, indeed, by the hundred. We shall soon have mont of our officers in the advanced lat Real —brigadier generals, major gener- Alexander the Great wept be is, aad #0 forth —Senator Kin, cause there were no more worlds § (0, Ulan left for him to conquer. So he thought. It never oceurred to him to com quer the problem of transporta tion. Civilization follows the railroad. Tomorrow it will follow the fly- ing machine. You seed net go as for back 06 = Gur iden of fun te © plumber Caesar to realize the luxurioas picking because central is slow state of modern transportation. scimilbiitinigiocai Get some old man to tell you of Bome girls stay single; others the duys before railroads, when dance. long-distance trips were made by stagecoach over crude trails and corduroy roads. Why sigh for “the good old days"? We are living in the greatest Hoover, who says we are sick eioht days of cach year, forgets the first of the month comes 18 times. The Frenchman trying out auto with wings will cave a wife and several children. With peace in Ireland, where will the world get its crises? Corsets eliminate waist motion. A level head ian't flat. f P) or oul THE DREAMER BY. CLINTON SCOLLARD Thruout his span of argent days From birth to death—a narrow zone,— He wanders by untrodden ways, Alone, yet not alone For ariel fancy moulds him mirth, | A slave to work his lightest whim; Andevery vagrant wind of earth Is company for him. He sees a brother in the star Set on the evening's violet verge And like his own the pulse-beats are In the deep ocean surge He finds a fellow in the tree Reliant on its thews of power, And, rival of the love bee, He woos the lady flower He from the poet brook beguiles The secret of its ¢ ‘eet rhyme. | And year on shortening year he smiles in the hard face of Time So when he slips from earth at last, ‘This alien in the clay, it seems As tho from bondage he had passed To fairer, freer dreams. ¥ GEOGRAPHIC we PUZZLE VESTEWDATS Awswik. 2 MAMI + PAN = JAPAN LETTERS 10 EDITOR) Ridicules Witt’s Program Editor The Star It seems to me that Mr, Witt plan to serap our present rolling stock and_buy pew and lighter and | ore cars would be needed than at onent, thus adding to the cunges on No matter if taster cars re used, faster cars is “far-fetched” and ill | we ptill would need to have the mane, connidered. or, rather, @ larger number of cars A light car, running at a much/for the rush hours, as a car could Higher rate of speed over the old | searcely be fast enough to make the streaks of rust misnamed tracks | round trip and be on hand for the would last @ short time, and we! second rush trip, would again have @ Job of “sorap-| I believe if wo take the manage ping” on our hands. ment out of the hands of the coun- To @ practical trackman, our pree-| cil chamber and give our present mu ent tracks are a nightmare without 4) perintendent full control, we would harnem, | get better remulte than to go chasin Again, a smatier one-man car rainbows, Your truly, would carry leas passengers, and! I D, GARDNER ing th Running the Car System Editor The Star: were true and could be done to save Much has been ald about the| Money, one thing being to take a) five-cont carfare in some of our|lot of our old cars and convert to| dailies, but nothing about how they |O8¢Mman operator, © going to make up the loses! Cut out all unnecemmry car mile | which would sure come. age and do not keep two or three) We must have money to pay the men on a job when one can do it) bond interest and operating «= | just as well, | penaes, saying nothing about the) no not pay excessive wages. If} depreciation and extensions. we are, send to Lon Any Ban | We ail would like @ fivecent fa! Francisco and Portland and etrike | Bo doubt about that; but how ca jan average. Then pay this aver we do it | Do not think living is any The system was purchased (Air! niener here than the other three and square, and while we may | have paid a big price it ls up to the city to see the thing thru. Cities mertioned. Hire & competent man to run the Mr. Ramsay, county commission fo a pyle Pang Page om | er, told us they could pot run their | While ihpen eae egee dita =. of | ferries to everyone's back door;|"#ht party, then say to him, “This | neither can we run our care on | Whole thing la yours to run, and if five-cont basis to please everyone, |¥OU do not show results in @ year without @ deficit, which in the end |** Wil! try some one clae the taxpayers would have to make| *By all means divorce the position wo from politics 4 J. L. WELLS. Editor The Star ‘There appeared in a Seattle paper recently, regarding the Chinese situa- on, @ statement that “China's 80¥-| oq as» binding on the United States, ereignty and political integrity have} ‘The Shantung settlement bestowed always been recognized by America. |upon Japan by our allies cannot bind as weil a» the sovereignty and polit |China, for she did not take part in it cal integrity of Japan. Therefore. How can it be regarded as @ treaty treath entered into between | between Japan and Chinat these two states must be regarded as| We are not asking the United legal under international law, It i* | Btates to go to war aiainat Japan for not possible for a third party, such|China. What we are asking In the an the United States, to attack them.” |conference is mere Justice; for PEAC Again, something about the validity |can only be founded upon JUSTICE of the “21 demands.” If we do bate war, I presume we do can be regarded as a treaty, then the peace treaty which was signed by Mr Wilson, but repudiated by the United States senate, also should be regard I wish to may that the “1 de [that is why the Washington confer mands” were never ratified by the lence is called—then the problem of Chinese national assembt They | China must be settied on the baale of were only made by Yuan Shi Kai at the point of the Japanese bayonet, jest is cronmed. For China is the “Key while all the Western nations were|to World Peace.” Sincerely yours, bury in European war, It, therefore, | FRANK 8. WONG cannot be regarded as a treaty. If it 421 12th Ave. 8 Makes the Whole World Kin Jumtioe, no matter whore selfish inter Editor The Star: }& child waited with childish tmpa 1 looked out of the window, and tience for the Christmas tree to (could you believe it) fastened to be set up and decorated and eariy the back seat of the garbage wagon.|the next morning to steal down: ite green branches waving as (ho| stairs in the gray dawn, to see it enjoyed its elevated position, al what old Santa had left Christmas tree, and a fine one at) One touch of Chrinttnas makes! that, bobbing and bowing with the the whole world kin, and « Christ. aceelerated bumps of the wagen.|mas tree is a Christmas tree, the driver looking at it carefully| whether it in om top of a freight every now and then to make sure|car, omnibus, fire truck, wartank, it was coming all right, and I'll mayor gartage wagon, and here's hop abe wan jing the old garbage man got «| As he mat beneath the green kick out of that ‘efe Christmas boughs I just knew bis thoughts|tree that will help to make the were "way back in the palmy days|New Year happy of jong ago, when he no dowtt as! BETTY POWLSHY. Too Many Narrow-Minded Men FAitor The Star | good number of men think that 1 would like to aay a few words to|a wife is nothing but a «lave, but! the party signing himeelf' ‘A slavery ayn are Old man,! Charleston Reader.” He dislikes the wake up! Women now have equal! ten commandments for a husband, | rights, and they sure deserve them. | and says the woman tat anewered If some of you men knew what a that was not an authoritative writer good pain was, you would have a Hit./ on the subject. I don't think you or tle more sympathy for your wives. the doctor either are. If you are as | She can do the dishes and care f over food, maybe you did not read the|the children when her head is doctor's ten commandments for| breaking, while poor, abused hubby wives. He said to let the man come |sits in hin eaxy chair and reads the and go as he liked. Don't you think what is sauce for the goose is mauce for the gander? I do; the wife has paper. But let him have a pain in his big toe and wifey is expected to wait on him hand and foot and he! ax much right to come and go as the |would have all the doctors in the| husband has. Thare are a good many state called in, Thank goodness reasons why the wives have head-|there are still some broad-minded aches, and it's no stall, either. Some! men in this world, but there are a! of you men would give a person a| good many more pretty narrow.| headache. minded. SEATTLE READER The Idle American Ships ar fl Editor The Jone small pier. A condition Uke that There has been considerable discus: | iy enough to #tart the blood of a real ‘sion in regard to the policy of laying up our American cargo carriers and having our commerce ried in for-| eign botton | newspapers w American boiling. Speaking of the unemployed, if the} 1 inquire they would The shipping board has been ered-| find that a large per cent are sea ited with a policy of making Seattle |faring men out of job. Why? ita experiment station, which a local Because nearly all of the overseas| paper says will be detrimental to the | trade r is carried by foreigners port of Seattle. | (mostly Japs) in and out of Seattle It haa been noticed by reading, the | That, it seems, in what a certain ditorials of mame local paper that | Seattle afternoon paper wants, they are opposed to the shipping| Seattle, jn the eyes of the pubil board, demanding the canceliation of |ix growing into a sort of American | contracts between American railroads| heme port for foreigners (mostly and foreign ship concerna. They say | Japs). it will drive the Japs out of the; I am giad to any that I am an! Seattle Orie . American, natural born, and I am| Those e may sound all|/for America and Seattle. My home right to a person not giving them is here and has been my home for 35 much thought or to one that does not | years, but I am not for the Japa, in visit the great pliers and warehouses,|/so far as giving them all of the the shipping board moorings in| American trade is concerned. tle. More power to the shipping board. ‘The shipping board has tied up in) T hope they cancel all of the con | Seattle about hips that will aver. | tracts: between American railroads age 8,800 dead weight tons (and more | and foreign ship owners and give the coming), all first class qargo carriers. | American ships a chance to get the| From all appearances they are to re-| rust knocked off before it is too lat main tied up until they are consumed |thus giving work to thousands of by rust unless something is done to| Americans who are now walking the put them in operation, Just across | beach the pier from the laid-up American) Any person that objects to giving ‘ | fleet the foreigners are coming and |their hearty consent to putting our! or going, bringing in cargo and taking | ships to work and cutting out the it out down to the load line both | foreigners has an American pocket- 8. B. ways (mostly Japs) and that is only | book; that is all. J. Send for Copy of Sheppard Bill tor The Star The writer desires to suggest [by the banks, which are just like ev eryone else, principally interested in to “Ringmaster” and “Progresstve,” | preserving their own skins intact. It who have been writing #o interesting: | is cullarly the job of the govern. ly about the bahk situation, and who| ment to solve this problem. In i Jdeprecate the difficulty of getting|I think it was—congress passed the money out of the banks for local en-|“emergency currency bill," which terprise, that they write one of the|authorized the issuing of mo ny tora or congrenam for a copy of the “Hearing before the Bub-Com. mittee of the Committee of Postof. jfices and@ost Roads” of bill 8. 2033, |“to increase the utility of the postal savings bank, to encourage savings among the people and to secure the largest returns for such savings con sistent with adequate security.” The title of the bill does not by any means convey an adequate expres: the national banks upon most any kind of collateral, Before that the secretary of the treasury would de posit large sums in the big New York banks to help in panies, after refus- Ing, in '96, Brother Bryan's prescrip. tion of free silver, The Sheppard bill proposes to re move the limit and permit the deposit of any amount and pay 4 per cent in- terest instead of 2, The amount now | ors or jis paying as much as 6% |interent Can Nations Pay Us What | Is Owing Us? BY AMATEUR BCONOMIST Nen everyone believer: that conditions will gradually straight out and that in 60 years Burope will have paid her debt to and everything will be ne again, Perhaps m r think that 50 years in too long & time; that 10, 16, or, at mont 25 years, will see things stabilized again But for nafety’s sake let's put the figure at 60 years, then fig ure out a scheme whereby the world’s debt to the United Staten will be paid in this length of time. A debt of $20,000,000,000 at 5 per cent will make an interest bill yearly of $1,000,000,000, The wides this, if they pay us $400. 000,000 principal each year, in 60 yourn the debt will be paid Thin does not seem like such An impossible proportion on the face of it ($1,400,000,000 per year, but remember that the,nations will also have to pay for what they buy from us besides This year the world will buy from us about $4,000,600,000 worth of goods. Add to this in. terest and principal payments | as shown above and it would @nean that they would have to PAY us $5,.400,000.000. The world has actually paid un $2,000,000 { 000 In goody and a considerable Amount of gold. This t# leer than $3.000,000,000 all together; there fore the debt will increnne tween $2,000,000,000 and $3,000. 000 000 instond of decreasing the $400 ,000,000 that we found necen. wary to retire the total in the 50 years In order to give this $1,400 000.000 credit thin year it would be necemeary to stop all exports; or if exports remain where they are, to inerease the imports about $4,000,000 000. With either alternative, what would happen! stand today, exporters are how! ing calemity and business men Are waiting for export demand to start good times again. The other alternative in to increane the imports $4,000,.000.000; to throw thie amount of goode on the present depressed market would cause dieaster, Congress in at thin time erecting a trite well to keep out foreign goods. The things that we want from the outside world are really tim ited, consisting montly of trop. joa! products much as coffee, co com, ton and ailk, Outside of this Umited field all producers are de. manding the home market for home products ‘Three courses are poxsible— 0) Practically cut off exports. (1) Tremendously increase our importa (%) Let the debt go on tncreas- ing. Which wilt it be? sources Of $54,000,000,008. Senator | Sheppard, in a carefully written statement, speaking of the federal re- nerve system in terms of highest praine, adds: “None of these features and qualities is it proponed to alter or endanger in the slightest degree by my bill (8. 2083) to increase the wulity of the postal savings banks, etc.” Speaking of disposition of portal savings funds under present | lawn, be says: “And what ix done! with theap savings in the postal bank | secured at no low a rate because of | depositors’ confidence in the U. 8. government, which backs the postal bank? Inatead of giving the United States the benefit of the money—the benefit of this 1% per cent money, 95 per cent of it is turned over to the bankers for 2% per cent interest and the bankers loan it to the United States for 4% to 6, of loan it to farm. ors for productive purposes at a still higher rate, plus commis. sions to nomebody “Thin very day think Aa things the United States per cent to bankers and 4thers—and most of the nations’ promises to pay are hawked in the market at a dis-/ graceful discount whereas our petty | postal savings bank, if unshackled. will mecure the government practi cally unlimited credit at a cont of §F approximately 4 per cent within a few months’ time.” Here te what the Sheppard bill promises ax to loans ) Loans not to exceed 95 per cent of the market value of bonds of the U. 8. or other states: (b) Not to exceed 90 per cont of the value of such other securities as are now admissible investments un der the existing laws of New York Or Massachusetts for savings banks | Or as are estimated by the industrial savings board as of equivalent good standing fot to exceed 85 per cent of rket value of wheat, cotton or non-perisha products: the m 80: in safe, adequately insured storage, ander such regula tions as the board may prescribe. (4) Loans agninst marketable col lateral shall be made at any county seat mavings bank or at postal banks in larger cities, as designated by the board and as provided for under sec-| tion 15 of this act, in accordance with rules and regulations made by the board.” The senator says in his statement:! fake emphatic note that nothing | in here suggested in the line of fiat| |money nor even of inflation of cred its. Certifying a bank check does not inflate, and every certificate of eposit in the postal bank is nothing! but a certified eck representing savings deposited. Sensible people ought to fly to the support of this bill. I venture to say that you can searcely pick up at random a man who will not approve removing the limit on deposits in postal savings and to increase the rate of interest follows logically, This bill applies to money the banks can: not ge Whether wise or otherwise, the “ignorant foreigner” is not the only man or person who refuses to patronize banks. There is no possible way for citi zens to move in such matters—citi- zens lacking power and influence— except by communication with mem. bers of congress, and it is folly to talk of democracy and do nothing to leave your impress upon legislation. when you know that most all effect- ual initiative is by special interests, supported by your representa L. A. VINC Large tracts of pasture lands have been discovered in Northwest Aus tralia, which had been regarded as all sion of its practical value. on deposit with the postal banks ix | “°*e': } It eliminates the difficulty as to} $155,000,000, which ie an atom com Moth nublie centifience a Caanrty ots awh t TURSDAY, pT CEMRER 27, 1921, _—_—_— APetter From AIWRIDGE MANN. Dear Fotks: My Christmas inventory’s made, and I've & jot of mtuft to trade: for it im diffic indeod, to fit the present to the need; and Chrig mus Day #0 often brings @ lot of Lean'tuse-e'm things My slippers seem a trifle snug, I never use a shaving mug, my gloves are just a xize too small, I never smoke « at all; my tle but that’s @ source of strife, because I got it from the wite that we'd be glad to trade with to trade @ doodad cousin Bally exactly what it's meant We've got some other items, too, for instance, we would like “ pretty thing, but we can't nee But we will keep them, never fear: it ien't gifte that bring the cheer, and we have many other things that Christmas season always brings—the loving thou, the cheer, the fun, the pleasant smile from everyone Remember all the rush and roar that always comes the day be fore—but everybody had a smile that seemed to make the world worth while, and cheered us up and made un feel that fellowship wan very real And these are things we're holding fast, till Christmas season jong is past; and we'd be glad to be alive, if all of us would always 4 wtrive to keep the Christmas «pirit here for every day in all the ee a 3% sai See re ee in # $5.00 Mr LIVING FASTER F ¥ a fui * te K BY DK. WM. E. BARTON bal and Xeaxes, The language, the BRAHAM LIN-| method, the mental approach, must — COLN delivered | be those of today hin address in| There was a time when no railroad Cooper Institute, | used a telegraph line for its own b New York, on|iness; but the@raliroad that woul Monday, Feb-| thus operate today would go out of ruary 37, ‘The| business with a great crash. Every preceding day he| business must conduct itself in the had heard Henry | life and spirit of its own generation, Ward Beecher| And that is as true of education and preach. That ad-| religion as it is of anything eine. formed by a man who has recently dress was one of \ searched the files, my reference to} the notable steps in his ascent to Wa? the addreas next day, tho to Titinois | Your Child’s Bowels Need it was of grent moment. Apparently “California Fig Syrup” ho single word was telegraphed from | New York | ch ko newspapers in 1860 wasted very litte money in telegraphing.| They could wait for the mails and #0 could their readers. Wut in TH4S, when the revised ver sion of the New Testament was brought out, a Chicago newspaper had every word of it telegraphed from New York, where the first copy had just arrived, that it might ap- pear in full in print 24 bours earlier than if sent by mail. 80 much of change had been wrought in 26 years. To be sure, the New Testament was more important than ever Lincoln's speech, but 3 { the presidency. 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