The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 21, 1922, Page 6

i ington. 4.60 tor & montha, or Profit "THERE has been a flood of death notices of prominent Americans, including sev- Seattleites, recently—men high in the world of finance, government, journal- ism, the drama, the professions—men who died in the high tide of ly from some vague com- plication of heart weakness that had not } seemed serious until the end. American business kills most of its suc- ‘cessful men off about the time they should become most effective. v work; most men die of fretting, fussing, _ atewing, anguishing about matters of no vital eral leadin, have died suddenly, life, and died most! importance. The average American business man treats | his body as a Jap treats a flivver. He runs it until it drops apart "lack of understanding. | Work and worry and fitful pleasure and medicine and then more work and worry and a Man? Few men die of over- from lack of oil and | another tonic, then sarely a hulk that is to the operating ta’ le, and there, too tly, affords a highly successful oper- ‘ation, with the patient being idiot eno to @ in spite of the surgeon’s perfect technique. Farmers who work 16 hours a day do not die at 55; miners who toil in an icy drip thru rht hours do not pass out at 48. Explorers starve and freeze and endure hardships, keep fat and hale. The human race came from the earth; un- : th we are animals, and our lungs, our hearts, our alimentary tract, our livers and onl spleens reunite sunli physica’ y thru the night and wo! TeX professio! ut with excess food, excess exhilaration, ex- tess sloth of body and consequent distress of The mind. earful it, fresh air, exer- man does not toss ; the over-fed, un- man burns himself _ There is darn little sense in making a mil- lon dollars and a wreck of yourself. ‘Physical taken in Se caussetdey tena doses, is y as it is for a dog, a horse or a chicken. ~ Bxcept ye be as little children ye shall in no wise enter the kin; of Heaven. WHO EVER SAW A CHILD MOPE IN A COR- | NER OVER A BANK BOOK WHILE ‘THERE WAS ALL OUTDOORS BECKON- ING? Did id you ever hear of a man wha had striven all life faithfully and singly toward an object and no measure obtained it? Did ever man try hero- magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that hore: Dreams may be suppr re was no advantage in them?—Henry D. essed wishes, as Freud i but who ever wished a devil would chase Nothing somebody. at Washington, has shift- sides in China's civil war. He tas been appointed prime minister the Peking government by the ‘Bew president, Li Yuan-hung. When the South China revolt be gan fn 1917, Dr. Wu went with Ban Yatsen and the Southerners. return to the North may that fatal disintegration has advisers. | Wa Ting-fang has the nimble mind of s sage. When he was ‘China's minister at Washington, an American woman at a dinner party asked him when Chinese ) women intended to stop binding } their feet. “When you American Women stop binding your waists, was fulfilled. American women stopped wearing Corsets about the time Chinese Women ceased squeezing their feet, and Dr, Wu has lived to say, “I told you so.” Wu prides himself on scenting coming changes. He has always the Japanese with bitter in- . Sun Yatsen’s recent sup- ‘port of the Japanese agent Mar- | shal Chang Tso-ling in the lat } ter’s unsuccessful attack on the Peking government, may have been the cause of Wu's sudden- Support of the reorganized Peking . administration. Peking stands In need of Dr, ‘Wu's wise counsel. He knows the West and Kast with a philoso- » pher’s understanding added to the practical vision of a successful diplomat. His medicine for politi- eal Ills is a double dove of democ- I, Tepeated as needed. Around hurts your luck like having it in for the personality of Wu Ting-fang, venerable patriarch of modern China, North and South can rally for » united front. If so, China will greatly benefit and American inflvence at Peking will be in the ascendant. A new China may now be in the making. I do not Uke the idea, at least by legtalation, of making the president the chief of the police aquad in the District of Columbia or anywhere else.—Senator Jones (R.), Wash, A Real Large Idea The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has invested $2,000,000 in West Virginia and Kentucky coal mines. There'll be no “wa- tered” stock or promoters’ rake- off. The miners will be given fair wages and working conditions, Middlemen will be eliminated and, from consumers’ local co-operative yards the coal will be sold at cost. This movement bids fair to be @ new and most important phase in the struggle between organized labor and profiteering capital. The brotherhoods of railroad workers have already shown great business ability in the successful management of a co-operative bank and a million-dollar invest- ment, and there's no question as to their ability to raise immense funds for business ventures, Several of the stronger unions have large funds in hand, or im- mediately available. The paying of strike benefits is largely waste. The rallroaders’ plan means sav- ings. There's a big Idea in this engineers’ movement f unions, Tf there ten't any hell, as Doyle eays, where do our enemles go? Health hint: Never marry @ widow until you iry her cooking, The Seattle Star * : the Big Babies Congressmen are complaining that lobbyists for the big manu- facturing interests are so thick under foot at the enpitol that the congressmen find tt difficult to wedge thru the mob at committee sessions; it is seldom that a con- gressman ever goes to the halls of congress these days, but he bit- terly resents being barricaded from hia pet committees room. That the activity and underfoot. edness of the lobbyists have not been tn vain Is evidenced by the long cigars, but that still require the pap from the bottle of high Pennsytvania and 55 cents for Okla homa in 1014; the price today ts $3.25 and $2 respectively. So much for the controlled nat ural resources. What about the producers, the farmers? In 1914 hides sold for 21 cents, ft E g i er i if tt zs | di y | ze bo i F) E { i g z t AH i f | | legislation indicate that the prest- dent might de on etther side of the ; oan — Senator Harrison (D.), Razors—and Common Sense The senate the other day ap- are to be used, he sald, by many American stores as “premiums.” The senator anid that they not “will not cut a corn.” And the republican calls this “foreign competition!” Such utensils are not rdzors, They will not displace a single good American razor, They are no more razors than chalk and water is milk, or sand sugar. The maker of good goods needs no pro- tection against such stuff as this, And Senator McCumber knows it, When he advocates any such iniquitous tariff as 400 per cent ad valorem he has s better reason than the German putty razors, But {t fs some reason which he docs not mention. ‘What he is trying to do Is to give American manufacturers carte blanche to plunder the peo- ple, Tho reason he has may be po- litteally corrupt, but the reason he gives is just plain asinine. A train almost ran over King Emmanuel. You can't get by a crossing on your reputation, Daugherty says he wouldn't quit hia fob for a million dollars. Ia the unemployment so bad as that? Don’t Crowd All in one Gay, the American Federation of Labor denounces the ship subsidy bill and Preskient Harding notifies congress that, tf it doesn’t ram the bill thru, he'll make the people pay for a special session of congress, Step right up, gents! Now's the time to place your money. The odds are: Subsidy, 10 to 1. A. ¥, L, 1 to 10, THE SEATTLE STAR WAttor The Star: Quite a short while since one of your young men waxed indignant about @ paper company at Port Anmpeles working tts help 10 hours. (The point of the news article here referred to was the company’s at- tempt to re-establish a 12-hour, not ® 10-hour day, The Star denounced the 12-hour eystem as being virtual human slavery, While The Star be Meves that eight hours is the fair and decent and American work day, it i aware that numerous com- panies are now operating on a 10- hour schedule. In fact, so many of them are doing it that any single company’s adoption of the plan ts scarcely worthy of special comment. So strongly are we convinced of the efficiency aa well as the justice of the eight-hour day that we believe these concerns will discover thelr mistake after due experimenting and return to the shorter shift,—-Editor,) Haditorially you full-faced your opinion that eight hours was enough tm any one day for the toller, Your liberality, on that occasion, must have been tinged with profes: sional concern for the papermakers, as fellow oraftemen, For since then the Puget Mill company, with huge | plants at Port Blakeley and Port | Gamble, basis. Today they are working 10 hours, Mr, Edgar Ames, banker, shipbulider, churchman, is exermplt- fying his idea of the Seattle spirit | by working bis men 160 hours. Where |the Port Angeles tncident affected hundreds, the Puget mill greed ts | Americanizing thousands. Your re |porter can get all the facts at the Second ave. office of the concern, or Who Really Pays Editor The Star: ‘The teachers are on record as out to "Expose the Tax Reducers.” As to the $10 per teacher contribution to this campaign, I would ask If this It Is not the first contribution on her part towards this purpose, as we ail know; but what we have objected to from the beginning ts that we have |to pay her those extra smounts in her compensation, so that she may have the funds with which to fight us for more—all of which goes to the Sweetman et at., who, tf they are ERS EDITOR Re-establishing 10-Hour Day have gone on a 10-hour! |several years, the school im indicative of the “poor teacher.” | from thelr shipping agent, Crawford | Biros,, Oocldental ave, My Information ta that this, the largest sawmit!! outfit in the North west, a Seattle concern, has been working on a 10-hour schedule for two months and the people's paper, The Star, wan scooped again, Aucther slant on the 10-hour ques tion ts afforded by Grant, Smith & Co,, Seattle contractors, Smith ts trying to reestablish the 10-hour basis on force account and contract work at numerous points along the Great Northern ratiroad. He has & bushwhacking strike on his hands a# & conmequence that has been raging now for six weeks. Again the peo- ple’s paper, The Star, seems to have entirely overlooked this further at: | tempt to Americanize some 2,000 | aliens, most of whom first saw the) light of day east of the Mirstaxtppt. One other outfit, that of Cosmop- | olla, has deserted even the L. L. I. L. | in order to reestablish the 10-hour day. They are being very ably a sisted by Mr. Uplinger, with offices in Washington st, and by Mr, Shields, who ts paid by us tax gatherers, Looks like Mr, Tindall, who seems to be hell for America, might manufacture an ordinance preventing the city employment office from helping 10-hour hogs get men. Mr. Meier ought to pase favor. ably on such, for he hae publicly confessed that decades ago he was a Cosmopolis victim, Because I feel that The @tar t straight out for an elght-hou day for everyone except school teachers, I trust you will give these few lines space whenever the wine and water debate subsides, FRANK P. MURPHY. the Ten Dollars? card of Mr. Taylor. It te the only one he used. It simply says “For Economy and Effictency.” Of course, lke every man who has run for school board tin the past teachers tried to “nall" him to « promise. He 414 not, ike Dr. Sharples, sign any @uch promise, Now they say he made ft verbally. I know he did for the Kiddies’ Haitor The Star: Gentlemen, in your Saturday Let ters to the Editor, a subsertber at Richmond Teach suggested b-cont foo cream bare for the benefit of the kiddies. I invite your mubserthbers to vinit the Kirkiand Kandy Kitchen to see our Bcent bars (ice cream) which have been on the market for some time They are known as the “Mount Rainier Juntor,” each one having three flavors, Yours truly, KIRKLAND KANDY KITCHEN, Tony Joseph, Prop. Did You Lose a Collie Puppy? Editor The Star: Monday a m, a lovely six-month. oi4 collie puppy followed me around the city, It wore « collar without y \tcense or tag; there isn't any identification. Fearing some little girt's or boy's heart will be breken over their loss, I'm writing y in hopes you will mention it in your paper, I left the happy, you might insert this notice YW. GA If you care to make some child happy, you migst insert this notice and let them know, if reply is giv- on, where the dog can be found Thank you. A STRANGER. and his investment in logs and lum ber and paint, eto,, is all placed with local firms. As @ clans, they com- pare favorably with any other seo Uon of the community, both a# re garde morals and health. One of our prominent real estate advertisers claims in the local press each Sunday that the way to become & g00d citzen ls to own your own home. The houseboat owner te just as ambitious to get ahead as the owner of the modern bungalow, but he has entailed the it) will of the |land sharks who will have something to sell him if he ts chased off the lake, It In & good job the real estate ele- ment are not dominant in the coun- cll at present or tt would be good-bye |to « equare deal. If Dr. Read will jgive the same dose of medicine to jthe big offenders that he wants to |give to the humble houseboat owner nothing of the kind at the meetings where I heard him speak, ‘What we all know is that after his election he aat with the other board membere night after night until 2 & m. in an effort to get at some re trenchment. Just as with Mr, King and Mr. Eckhart, they thought him eo well “nalied™ that they could, as veual, ait tight and squeese out the regular war tine extravaganos. That Mr. Taylor atood with the two older members of the board tn inane pets beer j ~"|month anys, “A equeaky wheel gets Why the hammering at Mr. Tay- lor? I have before me « campaign But ff tt con “Ain't it the truth? MRS. EDGAR BLAIR, Main 6194. What Is Dr. Read’s Motive? Editor The Star: 1 seo by your Interesting paper jthat Dr. Read hae had another at- tack of that fell disease, houseboat- hela of the houseboat owner. Many lof the victims of this mnapping are \beginning to wonder if there ts not |nome ulterior motive tn the interest [he shows In this matter. If It is a matter of health and sand |lential odors near the classy [garbage dump near Garfield st., and one or two other salubrious spots along the lake shore. Would they be \allowed to breed thelr militons of litis, and t* again snapping at the) blue bottles, house flies and pestt- rest. dence districts? IN say they would not. We are proud of Seattle as a healthy city, but it fs not due to Dr, Read's energy in connection with these dumps. The contrast in his at- tation, why does he not show the/titude of silence towards them and same amount of interest tn the sew: ;his periodical outburst against the ‘age deporited In the lake from other sources? To enumerate these sources valuable space, and no doubt these houseboats makes one “to think furl- | ously.” |would take up too much of your/ The average houseboat owner ts generally @ plain, decent-living work: sewage deposita are known to the |ing man, who has had the get-upand- |worthy doctor, It comes more with. lin his province than mine. The {houseboat owner cannot conceal a jeynical smile as he passes the city 0 spirit enough to use his small savings tn order to ellminate the rent problem. His money ts spent in Se ‘attle, amongst Seattle merchanta, he will be showing a more sporting spirit and will preserve the favorable opinion of the working classes of ‘this elty, for they do not believe tn class distinction or discrimination. Serve both cinases alike, Dr. Read, and begin with your city “dump” for |e starter before they get too odorous fn the hot weather. 1 am tnclosing my name and a4 dress with this letter as a mark of |good faith, but for reasons plainly jobvious I prefer to sign myrelf as AMPHIBIAN. LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY trying to Influence legislation by a remark he made concerning tariff | protection are referred to by the diplomat’s friends as puerile.” ASK FOR A NICHOLSON TUNGSTEN POINT FILS DONT ENVY the other fel- low’s freedom from ignition troubles — you can get into the joy class, too, by using Nicholson Tungsten Point Files. files that cut the super-hard metals of automotive electrical systems. 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And so, I think, the facts disclose that folks are “mighty Mke a rose.” For should we search the soul with care, we'd find both thorns and blostoma there; so what folks think of you or me, Gepends on which they choose to see. And could we hear the roses speak, they'd say, “There's always g004 to seek. Forget the thorns the heart msy bear, ané only nee the blossomea there! For that’s the way that beauty grows— in human ¢ouls, aa In the rose.” Got a Mile of Concrete Road for Nothing Ataquarryin the Imperial Valley, California, where were being ob- for another addi- tion to the State's system of Concrete roads, the This is but one example of the value of our la! studies tlonal foundation of 85 inde- = “ Paseo ee in the tes, a, Mexico, and Cuba,conducted forthe bene- fit of those who want dependable information on how to use Suggestions as to how our work may be made more useful to you are invited. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION to Improve and Entend the Uses of Concrete