The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 4, 1922, Page 6

The Seatt Published Dally by The Sta Newspaper Rnterpris: oo, Phone Main Washyraton. 0 per year God’s Next Great Adventure Time never was when the relations between capital and labor were worse than they are now. Nor have the people Of this country ever been harder hit as the result of this strife. Coal, nationally speaking, 1s. scarce and getting scarcer, It is dear and getting dearer. There will not be enough to go around, and officials in nearly all parts of the country are warning that the coming winter will usher fm an era of suffering, sickness and death. Not counting the human misery, the coal tie-up will t the public in dollars and cents more than ,000,000,000, The railway strike Kas hurt the country equally as much. The farmer has not been able to get his perish- le products to market, and all crop movements are, and il continue to be, seriously hampered by the nation-wide ight congestion. Prices are mounting and will go her. 3 ee Who's to blame for all this? : We are all to blame. We have learned to beat the birds at flying; we have learned to talk to each other thru the . across thousands of miles of space. We have learned make pictures move, to make a waxen dise reproduce the voice and sing the songs of our dead Carusos. We have learned to perform miracles, but we have not yet rned how to live—how to do unto others as we would ive them do unto us. : The money and labor war goes "way back. It started when the poor were slaves—legally and literally slaves— and some “radical” spirit worked out the idea that all men should be free. It continued thru the days when men were forced to bend their necks to the yoke 14, 16, 18 hours a day, for barely enough to keep body and soul together in squalor. It is going on right now whenever and wherever capital feels the time opportune to reduce the amount of money it pays labor and thus swell its dividends, or labor feels it can successfully demand a better wage. Abuses? Certainly. There has been abuses on both les. There is no disputing that. But in the main cap- has been the aggressor because it has been the stronger. Capital has mistaken its might for its right. ee There is nothing in this capital and labor problem making it impossible of solution. It merely requires the game brand of study which we have applied to other lems. It merely requires the will to play fair. In . it needs Christianizing. _ Christianization of industry simply means that human must learn to treat-each other like human be- It means no more Herrins and no more oppres- sion by the gun-man hirelings of big business; no more trary walkouts wheri industry is in a pinch, and no % beating down of wages on a supply-and-demand It means a live-and-let-live-on-a-golden-rule basis— @ basis of mutual good will and mutual service. “Industry,” says that progressive churchman, Dr. , “must not be left forever a battlefield of com- interests, strewn with human wreckage, but must and more be put upon this basis of service. The Christianization of industry, he rightly says, will _ be “the next great adventure of God.” ‘Miss Marguerite Waltz runs s dancing school in Philadelphia and that fe the truth. fs where the family isn’t. Over There and Over Here Japan has recently ordered the deportation of 2,000 Chinese workers from a Jap province because “they were working for less than Japanese could.” Meanwhile the outraged Pacific coast Jap cries to high heaven because some slight objection is made by workers and by business men, by farmers and by farm laborers, to his perennial pep in doing with and for less than a ite man can. Tf California or Oregon or Washington treated the com- itive Japanese within their borders as the Japs treat Chinese in the borders of the flowery empire, there ‘would be no Japs in this country within a year. If you could take the time to travel thru the fertile “valleys of Washington and California, the future bread baskets of the West, you would get an awakening as to the penetration of the Jap. The rich lands lying close to ‘the cities, as well as the islands and the fertile valleys, are cig monopolized by the Japs. Quietly, even fur- ly, the Jap slips into some new back valley, he skins the fertility from the virgin soil, he works his children and his women and himself as white men would never dare work mules, and he cleans up the weajth of the land and keeps it as surely as the Chinese miners cleaned up and kept the gold in the streams 50 years and more ago. The Jap is a whiz at skimming the cream and putting it away where moth doth not corrupt nor thieves break in and steal, and every kopeck, every dime, every piaster, every milreis, every yen of this wealth is held for the ry of the race and at the disposal of the divine mikado. itside, the Jap may become Occidental, but inside he is as Oriental as a jade-eyed, teak joss and with him race and the destiny of the brown sons of heayen is supreme. Nor does he regard that destiny as to be worked out in the Orient. At heart he holds America, and especially the Pacific shore of America, to be his destined home. Man places the heat of three stars at 10,000 degrees. The heat of next winter is unknown, Funny things happen. A Mexican general died a natural death, Our Tongue’s Longest Word The longest word in our language is “disestablish- Mentarianism.” If you think it’s a jaw-breaker, observe that it has only nine syllables. A student of languages has just discovered a Sanskrit word of 152 syllables. Yet neither of th two words is as important as little “if,” “no” or “yes.” Looks are deceiving. We withhold the Sanskrit word, from fear congressmen would begin Using it in speeches. Spokane golfer walked 53 miles in one day. Hope he found it, ‘The honeymoon is over when the coal shortage begins. Wait Around a Bit When 4 squirt of grape-fruit juice climbs its aerial lad- der and bats you one in the left eye, take comfort. Also take care that you don’t die before the new squirtless grape- fruit trees, that the U. S, department of agriculture is propagating, come into commercial bearing. It will re- juire only a few years of patience until the delicious ornton and Sampson “tangelos” will be on sale over at the Italian’s. They are much less acid than the squirt artists with which you dally these 1922 mornings, Considering the thickness of rouge, “crack a smile” is correct, le Star ! of the world.) Labor, created in re THE SEATTLE STAR THE TRIUMPH OF LABOR (Bronze-marble tablet presented to President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor at a post-war international labor conference in Europe, as an expression of appreciation of his work in behalf of the toilers ABOR DAY is Labor’s own holiday, won by cognition of Labor’s sta- tus in civilized society, and devoted each year to promulgation of LaWor's ment of all who toil. principles for the better- Labor day this year is signalized by a great uni- ty and solidarity among Their minds are upon our country. American toilers. the issues uppermost in They came back from a great victorious war against autocracy and junkerism, and they found another war against autocracy and junkerism thrust upon them. In this they have be thus far, and they are d victorious, To permit deterioration or destruction of our en splendidly victorious etermined to be entirely DREAM-MAKERS © BY BERTO ARD-THEWED Or forging whi N BRALEY from swinging sledges, ite-hot steel, From tolling on the dredges Or hammering a keel, The men who raise the towers, The men who bulid the arch, In fullness of their powern, Today are on the march. Hf, you whose hands are whitened By softness anid by ew Whose lives are sme By sturdy men pothed ai Uke these, lightened Tho in your eyes the vision Miraculous may THESE give it form, They make the MEY keep the tu They cut the ‘They keep the grea ‘To serve you, @ They march with And banners all turk preciaton, viaion WORK! rbines churning, bille away t wheels turning ay by day; jootateps steady, unfurled, An army ever ready To build a bet (Copyright, 192 © world! Seattle Star) LETTERS ENTOR Certificate of Editor The Star The primaries are at hand on Sep. tember 12th. The great ixsue ig the development of our water resources. Those interests that are trying to grab all the water power of the state are among the hardest workers at the polls, They are trying to contre our state and have so far succeeded pretty well. They, in association with other special interests, keep a close watch on legislative nomina- tions, On account of the lack of care and knowledge on the part of the voters they usually nominate and elect their man, 1 such members of the legislature who defend the city’s rights are too often defeated Seattle is noon to bring in 60,000 horsepower from Skagit and will lower its rates. The last session of the legislature passed a “certificate of necessity bill.” This had to be put to a referendum and is now before the people for their yote. There are a number of communi. ties outside of Seattle which do their trading here, and which ask & buy water from Seatt the state law, but they cannot buy electricity. Such sales would tend to lessen the rate in Seattle and extend the use of current. These outlying districts should have an enabling law that would enable them to: create districts among themselves to buy electric energy or construct plants therefor as they see fit. If we have irrigation districts, why not power districts Editor The Star If the letter of Elinor Morgan had been dictated by the powers that be in King county, it could not more fully represent their point of view, altho camoufla by a semblance of disinterestedness and fairness. Her first statement, with regard to the origin of the Lake Washing ton ferries, is absolutely “As a matter of fact,” the Kirkland ferry was undertaken and the ferry cleverly Washington bullt long before the Port of Seattle wag establish and before rt Bridges, whom the writer accuses of being the primal cause of these troubles, became a ttle | Necessity Bill Nelther my department, nor my self, are in politics, but we are vital ly interested In the power situation | We have a greater mite than the | much-talked.of Muscle Shoals, and the cost of development is loss | We do not desire in any way to nterfere with or hamper proper de opment of water power by private interests, but we do object to these |{nterests dominating our legislature, |abolishing competition among them selves, attempting to create a politl jeal situation wherein they control their own rates and service, and throttle competition from munteipal ly owned plants. As thin question has developed in | lead in defending the city's interests tor Ralph D. Nichols of the 31st senatorial district, The laws which have been passed and which are now referred, were passed when he was not & member. jest in the matter, I requested an ex- preasion of opinion from him on this subject. His answer I believe to be jof enough public Importance for me jto give it publicity, I believe the voters should ascertain the stand of jal candidates for the legislature | upon this question, because the re jsulte at the primaries of September | 12th will determine the type of men | who will pass the laws and deter |mine whether the development of our | water resources shall be in the inter est of the public as a whole or of special interests only, z. D. Ross, Ferry Situation—Another Angle {Prominent figure in King county polities. What that ferry has done for Kirkland and the territory tribu |tary to it, does not need recounting. jome years later the people of | Bellevue, seeing how much the Kirk land ferry was doing for the opening up of the country, began agitating |for a ferry of their own, Bellevue | having, like Kirkland, a large hinte: jland. ‘The county commissioner: | being responsive, the people appl to the port commission, then newly established, The members of the port jcommission were Gen, Chittenden, |Mr. Robert Bridges and Mr. Rema jberg. After much work und effort on the part of our citizeds our plea! past legislatures prior to 1919, the! on this question was taken by Sena- | Knowing his Inter: | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 190 { A@etter rom. SAMUEL GOMPERS |) JAWRIDGE MANN oar Folks ae 4 today is Labor day, when workers take a rest, an4 spend the time in any way they like to spend it b And so, if I cag spend my time in any way I like, I'll quit the Job of writing rhyme, ull a ttle wtrike. cae to win it in @ walk, because my boww te J; 1 band my. self m line of talk, and tell myself good-bye. And then ‘ie concealed surprise, and overbearing brow, I'll look me squarely in the eyes, and ask me, “What's the row? I'll answer me, “I've quit! I'm thru—you haughty autocrat all my life I've slaved for you, my pocketbook ts fiat! I've » you like a blooming #lave—you've gathered all my tin, and all the wealth I gave, and gone and blown it in.” ‘And then I'll sternly clear my throat, and firmly say, “I You lazy stiff, you got my goat—you're double-cronming me! I h to work and labor, too, and run the risk of loss; for everybody— even youhas got to have a bors.” I'll quit the strike and work some more—the way !t ought to be; altho it makes me awful sore to have to work for me. For bosses come and bosser go, an business whiszes by; but here's a solemn fact I know—my biggest bons is I! Coritge Tom le i Tho od taken Dad, Old Pal Dad, old pal, I've sipped the wine of Now I know that rainbows me youth's dear dr } are a gleam Of love and wealth and laureled| Thru st and cloud on ato brow; a I've tolled for it, and, tolling now, |‘That only love and cournge ee a 1 see the smile you smiled-—some. ‘The gebt your smile, your s . + * how lays standards of life and living means to permit de- | por me Ou we struction of the best that America stands for. Frees, 2%. by SX. Maree It means taking the life out of Americans. — America must continue to be the land of justice The Poolroom Problem we i j Zz or The Star are apt to blame the for the toilers, the land of opportunity, the land | ®44or The Sar niem has been|folke for thirsting after too tm brought to our galety, but we overlook the fact notice through the of freedom and democracy. i r 7 a official closing of the: ph in the it is the adult who createst & It must remain, above all others, the land ortienity district when tiey proved itemptation ané environment Mm 1 where men and women may find realization Of [to be a menace to the morals and therm; these adults are evidently a gardiess of the welfare of the youth so long as they can make money im the job. * The Masonic temple, a building that is symbolic of “the Temple mt * is rented for @ Sept. 4. This, com |pocketbooks of our students. Considering that the elty is within easy reach of the university, and that there are many and bigger pool rooms in the cty, this official action does not nearly meet the problem it may help to a certain extent by their hopes and their dreams. Labor's struggle today is to keep progress to the forefront. That should find the support and sympathy of every true American. { A better America, founded upon sound Ameri- or 4 * " wR calling the attention of the people to week-end and Monday | can traditions, making eet a better, nobler, — |the prevailing conditions. |holiday » wipation, and ix Bot J ; ildhood— Several city officials who have /normat recreation or entertainment; freer manhood an 1 child been interviewed on the subject./no one can truly say that an ah! That is what Labor wants. have suggested various methods of |night dancer is an allaround em That is worth the seeking, if life is worth the {dealing with the problem, such as | pioye. living a as 7 agg yw ae We cannot fool any thinking % |midst—enforcing police laws— le into believing that Seattl Ba Nhe: seni aa ———— cial community halle ax an offset \fate pa Are ge Mie Pvsetired t as large property owners, brought “nd = forth but these sethode ore lup in spote with bunting, boq t . , se “presere” reli not far-reaching enough. land boxes filled with flowers—t PRE - PRIMARY the “pressure” referred to by one £/" an. midnight closing hour is not |pnr -. nat 7 IN your correspondents, not the real! ut “washing the outside of Gee DAYS REMAID j . jconducive to the health and bar-|whtis the evil we ignore, because of business men, who see the advantage | mony of the individual, or home 4!-/ihe money gained eateth like a ¥ ‘The National League of Wom: || 0f reciprocity between city and coun: |rectly concerned, nor can the service | cancer. r _ ry alg try. That matter of huge deficit, so | in workshop or office be 7 on Voters, thru ite department Of 1] 00. iisrred to te coonection wihiofieea: 7 Our young people ought to betel i {ficiency in government, say® “hyge ooageere efficiency ir nov roment, ‘ves | {UF insignificance and wo cnaniesn, |" We may try to shirk the responsl peo ea Fe be The Lact ® S| | was carefully examined by the grand|hitity, but we are not good eit prrcaad bry on . pep ing am © you women cit a jury, without the aid of any brilliant |unieas we arouse ourselves and oth. | Prosressive citizens e cunning) b dircet yolee in t + |; lawyer to make them believe that the |ers to make the poolrooms fit and avaracious and immoral adult is elections. Use yOUr || oon was made of cheese, and they |proper places for our men and boys | ™0ved / opportunity. arrived at @ conclusion. where they can meet their friends,| 1 8m yours respectfully, d | _ MARY RAINE, and exercise their méntal and physi- | k Shei | Bellevue. Our neighbors of Me | ——————_______-_-___-- a cal energy in a constructtve way. | was granted dina, a place much smaller numert cally than Bellevue, and with little country to draw traffic from, except that lying back of Bellevue, opposed the project, The matter of writing | bonds was referred to the county, acted upon affirmatively and our citizens donated land for a ferry dock neral Chittenden, in order | [not ow partiality, silenced the | lopp nm of Medina by proposing |that the ferry also call at Medina, and so the Bellevue ferry became the Medina-Bellevue ferry. Then Bellevue's troubles began The idea that the development of |the country adds to the wealth of jthe «tate and nation did not origi: | nate on the shores of Lake Washing ton. Why, otherwise, should the United States government vote large jsums for the making of interstate jroads? Why should the government |put a million dollars into a boule | vard around Lake Washington? The |nation consists of ite people. Why |should people in New York and Philadelphia spend money on the | woods of Washington? It seems al | most as absurd as that Seattle should }furnish 85 per cent of the county road and bridge fund—if she does, | The position of certain wealthy | citizens of Seattle is peculiar. They | . rained no protest to the waste of} , money in the purchase of all the old | boats of the so-called Anderson | bs | Steamboat Co., at their original cost, | r, many years before—$88,000 was |apent in thin way, They smiled com- | : | ently on the purchase, by the| s tax-burdened people of King county, | » F of land for an aviation field, which | the government has shown no eager: | > neas to accept as a present. In the) Ss purchase of this land, costing hun: | yr SMALL CARS : dreds of thousands, the people did| jnot act by vote, but thru their legal | |quardians, This expense did not ij | trouble the advisory board of big tax} te payers, but the cost of operating the > ferry Leach from Medina to Belle: | “Red Crown” enables your car to e vue was the straw tening the | 1 h 3 f bs camel's collapse, ‘These men con- | develop the maximum of power and .: wtituted the advisory board of ‘the per-gallon mileage that its makers ; > jcounty commissioners, and citizens : . jasking simple justice from the com designed it to give. i he I missioners were referred to the or "i . ‘ hair iawyere. ‘Theos were the see It vaporizes rapidly and uniform- hs carburetor—that means | ly in the | quick . starting ing. It explodes com- pletely in the cylinders—that means a steady stream of power and more mileage at less cost. Run your car with “Red Crown” and nothing else, and you won't . have to bother with carburetor ad- justments. Fill at the Red Crown sign—at who, for their own selfish interests, (LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY '2e.e TURPITUDE. tur-pi-tood, with laecent on the first syllable, | Today's word tw It's pronounced It means—inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words or ac- | tions; shameful wickedness; depray- | ity. | It comes from—Latin “turpis,” Service Stations, garages, and other foul, base. dealers. It's used ike this—‘President Co | Harding, in deciding to pardon cer- ANDARD jtain wartime prisoners, took the po- ST. OIL COMPANY sition that their offenses, while such is (California) a as to justify the sentences against i them, did not imply moral turpitude on thetr part,” Brain Testers In a small country church a series of letters were found on the wall, If @ letter 1s supplied at correct inter. | vals the lines will form an inserip- |tion. The letters are: PRSVRYPRFCOCTMN VRKPTHSPRCPTSBTN. What is the letter and what {s the inseription? Solution to yesterday's puzzle: The two parts into which 100 can be divided, so that if one iy divided by |the other the quotient is again exact: ly 100 are 99 1-101 and 100-101,