The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 27, 1922, Page 11

THE STAR PAGE 11 On “Hell Ship” SEATTLE PEACE GOUNCIL PLANNED HERE Seattle Women Respond to World Movement Plans for @ suitable observance of Armistice day, November 11, will be dincussed at @ Meeting of the Wom. n'a International Peace and Free dom league, to be held Saturday noon In room 324, Globe bullding, accord Tinkle @ nickel on the jing to Mra, Jane Garrott, chairman | nearest handy candy coun: jof the arrangements cominittee. ter and get a Soctete Sur | The question of forming a perma prise, Rent peace counell, made up of dele. Just one buy—fust one gates from all progressive groups of try—and you'll always take both men and women, also will be your change in nickels taken up. Women’s organizations thruout the $100.00 IN PRIZES country have recetved an appeal trom the Women's International con Get @ ap > = \ asians jference, which will meet at The tor Gna | Hague early in December, “Burope ts on the verge of abso: |tute ruin," the appeal states. “Our | social #ystem is rapidly going to! pieces. The women of Europe appeat | to thelr sisters in the United States. The peace treaties have fatled. They Were ‘based on greed and revenge. | This basta must be changed, We need @ new pence.” | All women who desire to work to prevent another world war ere in vited to attend Saturday's meeting [Teeth Are Pulled | With Heavy Rock CALCUTTA, Oct, Tooth ex- L, t min Thibet is accomplished ‘a The dentist's office is on a roof, He ties a tig rock to the pa | te '» tooth and throws ft off. If oth comes out the patient pays yean't come out, the patient is i off the roof by the rock. = | The Genuine Ready to Mob Man With Pail of Water Why Windjammers Are Still in Use Rock Pigeon Worries Captain Joe Table Broke; Gambling Slows Down Victor Player Piano HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME— kept its old friends and gained thousands of new ones year by year until today it is nationally recognized as one of America’s truly fine player pianos. The Genuine Victor Player Piano plays the world’s best music just as ft should be played and satisfies the longing for music of every member of the family and every friend. Our present extremely low prices and exceptionally easy terms have cleared away the last obstacle to the ownership of one of these real musical instruments, 20 Will Gladden Your Home With This New ictor Player Piano ‘ The Balance Small Payments ad Down thus Radiotron tubes Amp Radiotron tubes Det Elwood phones 2000 Elwood phones 3000 . 6. 1g Murdock phones 2000. . 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It ts @ common thing to hear peo- very unhappy, 11|D!@ SAY: “Oh, these Mexican labor- bi ry ge |*t® don't mind it You gtve them jplenty of water and good clean! bunk houses, and they'd soon themselves as dirty as ever.” | This in @ gross Mbel. If any one thing had caused @ rebellion, it ‘would have been the lack of fresh water to keop themselves clean. } A ple is, we are told, naturally a j¢lean animal. We have asmumed jthat he ts dirty and force him to| live down to bis reputation. These migatory workers jbeen classed as “the great un-| jwashed.” From what I saw, they | are as clean by tnetinct as any of| the no-called upper classes, MEN'S TIME WORTH LITTLE Mose told us that the one cup of water was made necensary by the! jdanger of being becalmed or blown | fro mour course. Why, I wondered, | were the salmon packers clinging | to these antiquated windjammers Jwhen every other industry has| scrapped them? 1 put the question to « fisherman. “Well, you see, most of the crew | are not paid by the month, but by the season,” he replied. “The com- pany don't figure a man's time worth anything. The little tt co: them to feed us ls more than ma up by the enving in fuel and the high-priced mechanics a steamer | would have to carry.” |WOULD SAVE MILLION DAYS | Jf auxiliary steam engines were | Dut into the sailing vessels or steam- jsbips put into the runs, the trip to | the Pass could be made in 10 days in. . ‘ We guarantee that the price of this Player Piano thing, Dut the will not be less during the next five years shortage of water to wash In was} the thing that bothered the “gang” most. The food, the vermin the poor clothing} and transparent bedding were not complained of so mueo has the water ration. 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Special for Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, we selected one hundred All-wool suit patterns, includ- ing checks, tweeds, pin stripes, worsteds, salt and pep- per, silk and wool mixtures, gray serges, specially priced for 3 days only— $45.00 Extra Pants Included stead of 30 days, There is 20 days saved each way, or 40 days, | Jf there are 25,000 men sent to | Alaska, this would mean the eco- |Homic Joss to society of 1,000,000 days’ work, which, figured Hal day, would mean a social yearly de- | | Heit $4,000,000, We go to Keypt and look at the pyramids and shake our heads over the anctent Waste of man-power by Rameses, or we go to China and mar- vel at the cheapness of human energy Yet the salmon packers, under the rubric of more profits, are depriving society of the wealth that could be produced by 26,000 men in 40 days of every year. And this is not figuring the social loan, due to the lowered efficiency of the men forced to live on one cup of water a day, and to undergo the other deprivations in the “Chinese Hole.” BIRD THOUGHT ; BAD LUCK ‘The days crept on. They were gray, cold days, often varied by rain and fog, always made miserable by the |cold head winds. The Old Man was getting worried again. A rock pigeon had been following us, and Joe took this to be an omen of fll-luck, He got out his rifle and fired at It several |times. He didn’t hit tt, but the bird veered away. Our bad luck, however, did not leave us. It was May—-May Day had come and gone and we hadn't realized it. How we longed for the sunshine of the California we had left, From the first week out I had had a« revere jcold, as did most of us. One con- sumptive Chinaman coughed incess- antly all night. Gambling bad slowed up, because |the table was “broke.” The Gaum- jene were using cigarettes and cans jof fruit for legal tender, I could | not walk the decks on account of my |new snoes, which leaked like calico, |so I stayed most of the days in my | bunk, I had happlly made the friendship lof a sailor named Tom, Tom was an Icelander, 50 years old. His skin| fit him loosely, he wore a shaggy red | beard, and he never owned a hat, | ch as jerked venison, salty as Ja herring and active as a trout, Tom | was always the first to scramble aloft to the royal yards. There without a hat on hin head, he would tol with the rails ax the masts swayed and rolled in a biting wind or driving rain, And yet ‘Tom was as genfle a swore, and he would give away his shirt to one who needed it, TOM SUPPLIES REAL SHOES It was n who wold me, for al- most nothing, a pair of good stout shoes and two pairs of woolen nocks—real woolen ones he had bought in Market st. In San Fran And ft was Tom who used ot butter cisco. to slip me little hunks from his own table aft, In our “Chines Hole” there was one old smoky ship's lamp, Under it on « trunk we used to sit by the hour and talk of sea Nfs and its pertla, eesail Rib Tickler Charged With Libel LONDON, Oct. 27.—John William Gott, wrote and ciroulated a pamphlet entitled “Rib Ticklers for Parsons.” It didn’t tickle them and he was con- victed of blasphemous Mbel, Chinese Criminals A Getting Numerous PEKING, Oct. 27.--A heavy Increase in crime among the Chinese ts offi- cially reported, A close study of the situation has been ordered, | Tom had been around the Horn five times, but, he said, there were | no waters anywhere more perilous | than those we were traveling, It was he who told me of the Star of | | Bengal, which went on the rocks in Southeast Alaska in 1918. The satlors, #o tho legend goes, [battered down the scuttle of the Chinee Hole to eave themselves, It jwas their intent that the Chinee crew would perish while théy got the boats, But ft helped them not at |all, fpr most of them drowned, too. There were 110 salmon workers who went down with that ship, LOST IN A JAM OF ICE ‘Tom had also ben among those who were caught in the great foe crush in » Behring sea tn 1917, ‘The salmon fleet was met that spring by @ late break-up and was surrounded for |three weeks by tee floes, Twenty }men had left our bark to walk on the {co to vislt another ship. They had become lost and were searched for for two days before they were rescued, In that fee-Jam one bark and one schooner had been lost. The record trip to Alaska, from San Francisco to the Pass, patd Tom, w 69 days, nearly two months to make a distance that a steamer could traverse tn nine days. | SAY ““BAYER” when you buy Aspirin Unless you seo the name “Baye on package or on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer prod uct prescribed by physicians over twenty-two years and proved spfe by millions for colds, headache, toothache, earache, neuralgia, lum {Christian as I ever saw, He never bago, rheumatism, neuritis, and for *|pain in general, Accept only “Ray. er" package which contains proper directions, Handy boxes of twelve tablets cost few cents. Drugegists Tom's stories of hardships were many and thrilling, but he had a true sailor's psychology. He shrugged his great shoulders and wagged his shaggy head. “Growl you may,” be sald, “but go you must.” (More Tomorrow.) also sell bottles of 24 and 100, Aspirin ts the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monouceticacidester of Balicylicacia,