The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 19, 1922, Page 6

montha or $8. Meanwhile, Bitter Winter Comes— President Harding’s recital of the present industrial crisis; his catalogue his continued efforts to bring peace in the coal and railroad war; his reve- tion of the futility of patience and persuasion—these should be enough to even congress to some activity above conversation. The Seattle Stai By mail, oui of etty, te per month: # montha # he ata at 00 per year, My cerrter, city, se © month. Whether it will, remains to be seen. Meanwhile the country is plunging toward a winter of suffering and i The inser’s bitter harvest will not be reaped by the public until shortly " the November elections. That fact may embolden the politicians to their efforts to chattering. he constructive, emergency solution of the coal trouble, as suggested by ident Harding, is that, when, necessary, coal be pooled by the govern- and distributed at a fair price. This is a device that was fought off by coal operators all during the war. ‘ © put it into effect would mean that the government and the public nid know the truth about the coal industry. ame tender spot when he suggests a “fact finding” body to learn all about al. Two years ago congress gave the federal trade commission the money do that very thing, and the coal operators have kept the commission and r court injunction ever since. Tins overnment un 4 opposition to rule -~Tihino s is as bad as an operators’ army of gunmen in West Virginia. The resistance to officers of law by workmen is as bad as the private em- nent of sheriffs and county prosecuting attorneys by the employers. leantime shall the East freeze next win to the rail strike, the most pregnant words in the president’s mes- ppily, a number of decisions of this railway labor board had been carriers, In only one instance, however, had a decision, been brought to the attention of the department of tly carried to the courts and has recently d a carrier, and this decision n sustained in the federal court of appeals. y knowledge of the ignored decisions in other cases, because they did tation. When these failures of many of the carriers to hind transpo. by decisions of the board were brought to my attention, I could more Mr. by classes in this country. was prompt The appraise the feelings of the strikers.” Restated, this means that the law can be ignored and constituted author- flaunted, yet neither the pyblic nor the president nor the department of tice know anything about such acts “because they do not hinder trans- tion.” Then when employes refuse to themselves be bound by the governmental ly which is being ignored and flaunted b; ke. That “hinders transportation,” and t or the ‘ident or the department of justice “more fairly appraise the strikers.” president has been patient. He has worked hard. His messa lings 4 months, ¥ ‘the state, Bee per me It is the one step they most dread. ter, or will congress act? . their employer they go on en and there only could the re $4.60 for Harding reaches the The president is clear A miners’ private army public or the executive shows he has learned a lot about his country since he left the somnolences of mate. He has would do well to listen to his words. eaaeet meanwhile a winter of The way to do this is } advertise, and this means co- among the shingle pro- Strikes us, it is up to shingle men to tell their story the consumers; to protect their Now. “CUBAN” SUGAR OWNERS In passing I wish to say that Pive of the sugar refiners of the Country today control companies tm Cuba which produce the greater Bulk of all the sugar produced in that island.—Senator Bmoot (R.), Utah. that the president is Those Main-Streeters BY BERTON BRALEY The Folks from Main Street, U. SA, Are not a highly brilliant lot. They go their calm, bromidic way, A way, no dout, a trifle “sot”; They are not very quick to grasp Each social doctrine new and strange, At ultra-rndicals they gasp; The Main Street Folks are slow to change. They don't get much worked up about Seme stuff that “modernists” prociaim, They wait to see how it works out Before they either praise or blame. They have their homes, they have their cars, And soberly they work and piay, The great “class battle” seldom Jars The Folks from Main Sireet, U8 A A little smug, a little slow, A little stupid they may be, And yet their hearts with kindness slow, They're friendly people, you'll agree. With quiet patience they will bear A heap of troubles, day by day, But when their ire is roused, beware The Folks from Main Street, U. 8. Al Oh, they're a crowd that I've made fun of In verse intended to be gay; Yet in my heart Iknow I'm one of The Folks from Main Street, SA (Copyright, 1922, Seattle Star) AIVRIDGE MANN. Dear Fotka: I see the lawyers got toget we're the most unlawful bunc ought to have the dope, but Vd like to break is Mr. Volpte I see that Harold F. went awuy to put himeelf in ¢ tried « lot of husbands, still the ones I get from dear old t I see in eastern Oregon the the highways driving herds and herds of steer. they say, will fi! the city full how to throw the bull, I see @ train was stri something awful, so the I can bear # tourist 1’ like to go to hell!” I see the tribe of Mann ts ded ‘Oh, Jobn M. Mann (hooray for us! ts running business there. her just a while ago and sald that h Of birds they know. The lawyers here’s a solemn fact—the only law ad's Act McCormick took his youthful glands and Janna Walska’s hands. Tho Ganna’s she's heard to say, “I much prefer 1. 8. A.” Rodeo {s neay, and cowboys throng ‘The politicians, #0 they hope to get a lot of dope on down in Arizona way; the hent was ern neem to way. And I can just imagine + Please, conductor, start the train— in the Portland mayor's chair; for The hoble name was known to earth before our cares began—for ante dating women was the ancien’ t tribe of Mann! itter, learned so much and so patiently that his late colleagues erless and that national bitter suffering ap- J e | | Will to Live} That's Jim’s Idea. |} || A London Suicide. |; 'Twas Imagination. Be Successful! } BY JIM MARSHALL { | Gover In deah of Lunnon—the oth- | } er day—one of the inhabitants and gave up the sun again | - 4 to hang himeelf | | —with this jaudabie intention fn | mind—he procured @ handkerchief } and a bedpost | ; attached the handkerchief to his ineck im the reg tion manner— and then tied t er end to the if down | —and after a short time—he died. | doctors who examined the body— | said that death wasn't caused by | {atrangulation—but by imagination #0 intent on com t the suggestion | lef around his wind: | pe was sufficient to do the trick —which suggests that as we grow | to know more about the control of }our bodies—by our minds | —we shall have “thought. euicides” in which the victim re wite }down and says—"I'm deat | saying it with such conviction jthat he really dies / ar) |@Jt remember reading a fiction | “story once—in which robbers locked a bank cashier in @ vauit th cashier thought the vault } was airtight—and died from euffoca- tion | £ j and after the vault was opened |nd his body discovered—it also wan | discovered that there wae a ventilat- | ing shaft in the vault—giving plenty of air to k 20 mén alive —the cashier died from mental auf. focation, (nowt & man can Kil himself ‘2 merely by convincing himself that he’s going to die—the thing ought to work the other way—as well d, as a matter of fact—t does u can make yourself a success | —or a failure—just as you please —if you only have enough will power and will-power ts just like a mus- cle | —regular exercise makes It strong. |er—and neglect aes it to shrivel | . . | rep iG if you lack will power—and mont | Sof us do—you should start in by making yourself do something you don't want to do something maybe —and, having conquered that—try something still harder and something harder still you won't bulld will-power over night-—but in @ comparatively short | time you'll have enough to pull you | thru most of the hard gpots of life. | see you're afraid of— | rome folks think the “mind over matter” theory—is all the bunk —which Is @ foolish stand to take | and the next time—things go |against you—and you're Inclined to | think that—it can’t be helped | remember that It CAN be helped if you've only enough will-power to conquer conditions | and that—if a man over in Lon- {don had enough will-power—to kil! himself you can develop enough will. power to make yourself live successfully and happily | } | i THE SEATTLE STAR IS WILLING, CITYWIDE MISS ORDA NANCE Miss Orda Nance, city hall, secre tary extraordinary, was thipping & theda aa we entered the door, car tying @ long roll of P. O. W. entry blankth, “Oh, how do you 40,” she sald, laying aside her typewriter and re moving her feet from the waete paper basket. “Why are you carry: ing the fooitheap. ordtinanth, out. out. you can take ft T won't thign it. Take it right 1 thigned ene last month. 1 lrom Greea Fisids and Running Brooks (Dobbe-Merriti REACH YOUR BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Reach your hand to ma, my friend, With its heartiest caress— Sometime there will come ‘To Its present falthfulness— Sometine I may ask in vain For the touch of ft again, When between us land or sea somewhere in the night, herve em to me as tho Just a touch, however light, Would make all the darkness day, And along Lead me thru an Aprilehower Of my tears to this fair hour, © the present te too weet To go on forever thus! Round the corner of the Who can say what waits Meeting—« Faring eac Still somewhere the path must end— Reach your hand to me, my friend! | If it ith a new! I'd love to be, But mither— right| BUT FEARS RESULTS LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY CAMBTUAN, with Today's word ts It's pronounced—kam-brian, }accent on the first syliable. It means—Welsh; something per taining to Cambria, Wales. It |i used also to describe a certain |diviston of one of the geological enna, It comes from—Cambria, the Latin version of Cymru, the native name of Wales. It's used tke thie—In rectint tn- | te mal discussions in Wuroi |the Cambrian statecraft of Mr | Lioyd George has proved too much |for the Gallic impetuosity of Mr Poincare.” Or, “The Cambrian 41 | viston of geologtca! time ts so called | because it waa differentiated, or set | apart or ae | Met gtvgn out at the same time was |admitted to be incomplete, it ts dublous whether 111 is the complete list, either. MKS. ANNIE BR, STEWART, 720 Nob Hill Ave. * Replies to * s. Bannister Editor The st The letter of Jennie W. Bannis ter in your taue of Aug. 15 shows & complete misapprehension of the facts. 1 am fairly well acquainted with all the citizens jaunching the recall movement and I cannot think of one person among them who lives in Bellevue to avoid city taxes. All |daventh heardth the lasth of I) property owners im that small com yeth.” |munity feel that they are fairly “And poor dear Mither Brown.” | wei; taxed where they are, and do “Oh, the Printh of Waleth? Ithn't| not peed to remove elsewhere to dc he the custh boy. Pretty hair. Ob.| their duty by the county treasury Td just love to have « maid due! hey live here because they like up my hair Uke Marie Antoinette./ ing pidce. They have no idea of | You remember her in that pitch@r, trying to vie with Seattle in wealth ‘Tale of Two Citieth, don't you? lor importance, and the recall tr “Yeth, I'll thign right here. Ith) iwunched for quite other reasons |not @ ordinanth, ith it? Ob, 48F/ thon that of making expense to the county. Indeed, If successful, ft may save unty great expense hereafter | We are told that Seattle pays #5 | Per cent of the county taxes. We |neem to have heard this statement |hefore. Assuming, for the eake of jargument, that Sehttle will pay 85 per cent of the recall expenses, sh: | might be able to mupport the heavy burden if good came of ft. We cannot believe that the people jot Beattie are so warrow and so blind to their best interesta ag to be willing to shut themselves off from the surrounding country, altho jauch @ disposition existe, The president of one of the |largest banks, on being asked what would be the best thing for Beattie ie watd to have replied: “The open ing up and development of the country east of here." The money spent by the county for roads and bridges ls not expended for the sake of this or that Uttle community, altho ft isn, incidentally, of great benefit to all the people. The peo le of Beattie make ae much use if the roads to the east of Lake Washington an the farmers do. Do we not all help with taxes to keep Snoqualmie pass open for automo —Pertrelt by Tom Celverwell “Oh, dear, it won't omuse thity-) wide COMPLICATHUNTH, will fT) > | Poor dear, Dr. Brown—" co HAND TO ME from me Mrs, Rannister’s information about thas $400,000 yearly deficit |for ferries ts as obsolete an Mr. | Voliva'n geography We @o not know where the bulk of that $400, 000 went, but the grand jury had jan opinion. We do know positively [that $2,100 of ft was charged to jthe county for the painting of a Jemafi tub of a boat, seldom, if ever, jused, that received neither pathting jnor repairs that year, The amount sald to have been expended would |hhnve covered her with at least ten | coats of paint. | 3t te true that not @ small minor. | some sunny way street for uat— reeting, night and day, h the self-same way— Can You Smell a Skunk? Editor The Star: An alert editor ought to know and always believe that Harding Is for Big Business demands Ho was born to tt, reared to It, al ways chosen for it, and when a paper pats him on the back for seemingt going contrarywies, it simply plays his trick and perpetuates what Is cer- tain to show up later as pure bunk The crippling of railroad service jand the mine situation are due to/ stink! San F rancisco’s Schools Editor The Star: In an editorial of August 16th In The Star, I fote you mpeak to the “ruthleas school economy advocates’ about “San Francisco, as a place where salaries and other costa were satinfyingly low." Then you quote from a San Fran jelsco paper on the subject of school bulldings, and say not another word on the subject of salaries. All that hae been said about salaries was a comparison of the salaries of super intendents, Seattle paying $10,000 for the last three years, and now paying $7,500, while San Francisco hag paid $4,000 for the last 10 years, if not longer. As to the difference in the work and the dif in the resu have only the 1 of interested par- ties as to which is the better, Con sult school people and the Seattle schools are marvelous; consult pa. trons of the schools whose children are in school (when they are not thrown out for poor scholarship, and whoue fault is that?) and who have to pay the costs of education thru high taxation, and you hear some thing altogether different And in the matter of school build ing, perhaps Seattle in not so far in the lead as some would like to think it tn! In tho reliable (7) statistion put out jby the school office, aro there any lists of portables that are used in #o many grade schools? Portables are very little better than the “little old red school house,” and there are children in this elty who have done all their grade work in a portable, have gone into high school without ever having been to schdol in any thing but a portable, So, in spite of the millions expended for high schools, ete., in Seattle, have we any- thing to pride ourselves on over other cities? *| Washington have been }ity, but a bie majority of right- mjnded citizens hope to see the fer ties put back under the contro! of the county board, but not under a/ management creating a deficit of} $400,000 a year. ‘The statement that the people of Seattle, by united action, brought pressure upon the comminsioners to tease the ferries, Is not true, but the reverse. Some people many have believed the deficit story. It ts true that the commissioners never announced a decision to those wait- j faulty management, grsed for abnor. mal profits on the part of Wall Street and Big Business’ attempt to crush | the unions. ing until after. being closeted for a « long time with one man, and that this man Is believed to be the real lessee of the Lake Washington fer- | ties. Perhaps other millionaires re-| mained incognito behind the curtain All the leading Seattle newepapers advised urgently against the leaxing, and the commisstoners decided not to lease, but thie decision was soon rele gated to the chamber of broken | | promises In writing this letter, I am not tn. | Anybody ought to be able to smell @ skunk when Harding seems to Indl. cate serious Interference with these | things, But some pafiers nee col- umns of perfectly good editorial space to show that they really can't or don’t want to identify good skunk | RP. Another fact is noted in this same nows item, and that is, that San Franciaco is waking up to the im.|“¥eneed by the desire to see my| iquity of bond tacwes! name on the first page of a newspa Which {s something that Seattle| Det Without paying for advertising better be aroused Ont Aw alt hega| Mrs: Bannister should learn that it 1s | issues must be paid for out of tree | ROt always falr to judge others by why not levy the tax direct and save |0N¢'# Self I have lived too long to thp:tuteteek ba the hecae? |care much for cheap notoriety. The people who get that Interest MARY RAINE, will, of course, object to direct taxa Rollevue, Wash. tion; but let the taxpayers study this | : ut estion more carefully, t demand | § 3 economy from the people in| ° | Power, ‘and not put so much money | B ® T |into their hands, to be used extrava rain esters | gantly. The people. who have had most to| The following, the missing letters say in comparing California with| being duly supplied, will be, found the school|to represent familiar quotations of In their pub’! |the juvenile order: tion called the “Washington Educa H—w—o-—h-h tion Journal,” they give unastinted|—e praise to Callfornia for having put| 1 over something like the 30-10—but at jtention should be called to this in | teresting difference in California | |the school age for which money is |raised fs § to 18—in Washington jehildren from 4 to 21 are taken in the census; so when one figures the difference four children would make in the number of dollars raiged (these |ehildren possibly never being in id school at all, but the money collected), ! r the 30-10 in California would not mean what it would in Washington “Comparisons are odious,” 6s. pecially when they can be worked both ways. Other facts about Call fornia schools which can be used “for or against” are, that all San |- Francisco residents are favored b fore other applicants are consid and anyone employed there must re sido in San Francisco. In a. list fiven out by the school office the other day was a list of 111 persons teaching in Seattle schools and living outside the city limits, As another people themselves rie Sr Wr epee a 6 p—o—e—a—h—h—n—n- H--g—t—e—9—0—e—a—1 — h 0—e—0-—-Y—P--N—n—f—o—@, y r J—o—a—d—1—1—0—t—p—h—h ‘b—1—g-—f—2. 0m m—t—o—e—-t —e—o —e—o-—1—u—h--d-—o—e n—s—o—t h—d—#—r—-n—w—y4 — Yesterday's — Solution: stones gather no moss, nation is the thief of th Time and tide it for no man, A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, All is mot gold that glitters, Fine words butter no parsnips, Rolling Procrasti Wear and Tear on Cement Machinery Costly Machinery used in the manufacture of port- land cement wears out faster than in most in- dustries. Mechanical equipment has to be replaced on an average, once every ten years. Firebrick lining in that part of the rotary kiln where the raw mate- rials are burned at nearly 3000 degrees Fahrenheit, has to be renewed about twice a year. To prevent long and expensive shut-downs, spare parts for practi- cally every piece of must be kept in stock, In addition, most mills maintain For every million dollars eg in the cement t proper, from $75,000 - to $100,000 worth of parts must be on ‘One company’s inven of spare parts runs as as $1,000,000. Interest must be earned on this big investment. Capital requirements of the cement ii are Turnover is slow—with some companies only once every two years. PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION to Improve ond Basend the Use of Concrete e Et BE. WANTED BY THE Oregon Short Line RAILROAD COMPANY i Boilermakers, Machinists, Blacksmiths, Car Repairers and Car Inspectors. 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