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

YAY, NOVEMI ” 2 TUES 5 PAGE 6 THE §8 i e a “ enka naccenae arte . St LETTER FROM iden a Caramels, Nougats and Fudges ar ~ . ! 4 ain 0800. Now a + : us homena te : By’ mall, owt of b (e) C sai ‘ } ; year, $5.00, im the . ‘ “wer f " cca | | ds ds€0 SSEW | sf Ai 6 . fen oot onwed the Chile coast around, and quite | the cour * ‘ New York office, . of people wed, The town " _ ‘ TPAD : h na horror haunts the shore; and || I SHALL BE CONTENT ; E ee way it was befor | Washington Bureau, Seattle Star ; : are | in fancy's gage, the town that used to be; It y who se h for Song too often turn 1922 N. Y. Ave., Washington, D. ¢ ) Chinese Contract System Must Go | elt-eufficiont, normal ways, when quiet ruled the wea. If see the fy itisige: hah Bip thee 1 want the bulletin CARAMELS, NOUGATS AND 5 j sgl he Alaska canneries || D&vhty potentate, the chesty miltionatre; 1 the folks of low To scan the skies for a distant star, oda aia taclees herowhtis 4 conte in oteanga fer. post gd ag ara DOTATAny ASR Te A Cenyeree state, with burdens hard to bear Or walk in a garden and expect to learn cae ant wnlting st go. } Poatea? P To subject 10,000 workers each year to conditions y What Poetry's fairest treasures are bes which this system breeds is a disgrace and is unworthy EL aR hy Nery ED 5 a of any industry, The recent expose by Max Stern, re- I shall not turn to the skies agair even SE a ie cai eta deg porter, who journeyed to Alaska in the employs of a they . puny human mass, and strike them one and all, And To find a song or bit of verse, : wealthy Chinaman and who discovered unspeakable filth, now the tidal wave he parsed, consuming class and creed they'v Nor shall I search down a garden lane; ra disease, exploitation and hardship among these cannery apap hag reg meen tardy Rig pos tha Dian Re col pe ye RG OD But I shall slip my hand in her - hands, is only an episode in a long chain of scandals, hens pred clea or pride to mall the Nigh er low. And guch , wraTE 5 emanating from this outlived system. Since Stern’s story ¢ } our silly human plan-—that only trouble makes us And she will plan the songa I sing; 5 r began, The Star has been deluged with letters corroborat- fe bod of man I shall be content with wondering ‘ ing everything he said. Many of these letters contained . ‘ + facts which were unprintable. (Vy ° | seartsint: than OM This makes « renewed ob ! No industry can afford to carry a burden such as the j State Votes Down Censorship can ong aati petinty: tei ear aaa ‘ Chinese contract system in this day and age. Eventu- } "| waitor ‘The Star reaponse to the appeal of the press! pice in, the presw of t 7 I want again teas ally the working conditions will react upon the busi- - As you know, there was a referen-| and cit ot state that the | tie matter up ver t is interesting to note, ness. Underpaid, underfed and discontented workers } to dum vote in Massachusetts at this| commonwealth of Massachusetts | the fight again : are a menace to any industry, especially a food industry. | election a» to whet or not the act | stand against this undue polit teat nbor, There are three elements in every industry, the workers, | the ‘ gpden sgrhu some = venepber spy ay anal the owners and the public. All three of these partici } ton plotoree, sanuld oe.cheuld net |able cations ket—the pants in the canned salmon trade suffer from this strange | a the tae.” St seea jie dines Cheb Survival of early pioneer days, the Chinese contract | 277 votes candida j About Cars their toll from the workers but they must be paid by the cannery owners. As for the public, it cannot be denied that they have a right to have a staple food put up under the best of living conditions for the workers. In the interests of all three of these participants in the salmon game, it is best that the Chinaman and his labor procurer and outfitter be sent a-packing. There are two ways to do this. Either the cannery owners themselves must cut out the system and hire their workers direct, as is done in other industries, or the people must step in and legislate the system into limbo. There is a tendency on the part of the more enlight- ‘ened of the packers to improve conditions in the Alaska eanneries. The Alaska Packers association has gone far- © ther than the rest in improving housing conditions. But © im so far as it has permitted its cannery hands to be = yearly mulcted, underfed, overworked and _ generally "made to live down to the standards of the Oriental con- » tractor who owns them for the season, they have failed. | It is up to them to clean house from the bottom. This Means to dispense with the services of the Chinaman and his sub-contractors. It is folly to say that an industry » cannot thrive with well-paid and contented workers. | Henry Ford has become the world’s richest man by doing _ that and the Standard Oil has just cut a huge melon in California with the same sort of labor program. If the cannery owners refuse to listen to the mandate and get into step with sister industries then there will have to be some governmental regulation. Another season must see the passing of the Chinese contract system on the Pacific ccast. Furnaces are like husbands. If you don’t watch them they go out. . ; Inside information is valuable. That’s why doctor bills are high. « 4 “There never has been enough peace in the world to go around. When the Public Helps Itself - Help yourself! re comes a time when monopoly of the necessaries is arbitrarily extinguished, when morality, law and rights ‘in property fail to function, and the public helps itself of everything save its needs. re Was a tremendous demonstration of this truth ing the great San Francisco fire, when certain pa boosted the prices on their stocks of foodstuffs and hungry people walked in and helped themselves, with law, represented by many able-bodied policemen, ing by, saying and doing nothing. That precedent ‘was revived last week, as is revealed by a little item tucked ‘away in odd corners of the newspapers. The incident referred to occurred in New York state and affected that powerful man, J. P. Morgan. The people of Highland Falls, Orange county, were® suffering from scarcity of coal. Only 83 tons of coal had been delivered to them during the past three months. They discovered that 438 tons of coal had been delivered to the Morgan estate. So, headed by an official whom they call their fuel administrator, they went to the Morgan place and took 353 tons of Morgan’s coal. Maybe it’s only a little precedent that will be local, solely. Maybe it will be thought of by those communities of the tt Middle West when Jack Frost seriously clamps on is pinchers. Anyhow, isn’t it a large lesson for those who have the money, the power and the “pull” to hog things? You can't keep a good man down or a good for nothing man up. You never have to sit around and beg a phonograph to sing. How Your Honey Is Made The recovery of business this year has extended into that mysterious civilization of the insect world—the activities of bees. Bees have speeded up. And the 1922 yield of honey will be a whopper, possibly breaking all records, if preliminary reports to the department of agriculture materialize as ex- Next time Willie spreads honey too thickly on his bread or buckwheat cakes, maybe you can interest him by telling him this: To make one pound of honey, bees have to carry 37,000 loads of nectar from flowers to hive. Infinitely patient and elaborate preparation, then it all vanishes down the human throat in a twinkling. Such is life. Konsas City man who began life as a poor boy owes $1,709,461 now q Moot men tell their wives everything even if they don't know it What Sort of Judges, General? President Harding shortly will appoint 26 new federal judges, to serve for life. What type of men will he choose? i We have a right to know. They and their bailiffs and clerks and other paraphernalia will cost upward of half a | million a year. Their decisions will affect us for a § generation. a Will they be men learned in the law, or men conspicuous for political service to their party? Will they be sympa- thetic with the masses or will they lean toward the interests of the wealthy? Harding is leaning on the advice of Attorney General Daugherty. Candidates are arriving in Washington al- most daily for inspection under Daugherty’s personal microscope. What kind of judges will they be, General? A man is often misjudged by the company he keeps Life and bash are what you make of them: conductor 1 was and te it wan too late tid th ery natu: th very much, for on the Mor er per Western x ave © pontoffice and | the j and }on boarding my car was told to take | run. but it we n irritating ex the FE. Madison, By this time I wae) perience for a # © in the elty losing hope of ever arriving at my | or when one was in a hurry. Yours destinatt but I waited until a No.! very truly A. J, DUPLESSIS. ONLY THAT | ees Most of us have only the courage ntions —Life. of our con SCIENCE Studying Plants. Uses Chemicals. Then Spectroscope. Shows Soil Facts. Holman f the t natalled a new studying the chemistry of Professor famous plant | versity of Cal | npectro- ie takes a common fuchsia and} | put» a stalk in a solution of a chem ical thium nitrate, This absorbs nome of the liq taken f the leaves « jin o gan ne and then look thru the spectroscope | Every chemical element. shows a} i colored line in a definite place in a) kind of rainbow in this instrument, | if it is present, and as there is now) BG litihium present in the leaf when | burned the definite red line charac teristic of lithium appears, This te proof that the lew absorbed thix J element. One millionth of a grain of | [lithium will be revealed by thiv dell- | | cate method. DR. J. KR. 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