The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 7, 1923, Page 6

TLE STAR WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1923, Justice to Industry's Injured Soldiers Demands Amended Compensation Law joining with employers and with the general public to bring about the enactment some years ago of the workmen’s compensa- tion law, the working men of this state surrendered their right to Sue in personal injury cases. Tn return they obtained the now familiar state machinery for the automatic payment of stipulated sums hy way of compensation, the yments to come out of a fund collected from the hazardous in- lustries. At the time this law was passed it was hailed rege -as a great gressive step. It was the first of the sort in the country to be Bred constitutional, and it started what has rapidly become a great national reform. But changing economic conditions have brought the state of Washington down from its pinnacle as a model in the treatment of jured men to the position of being the most niggardly of all states. fashingten now ranks LOWEST in compensation payments for with their large negro populations, deal better with their injured men. So does Porto Rico, Several of the progressive states provide almost double. Oregon's minimum is higher than Washington's maximum, This is a disg: ing of our industr 't is fair to say that many industrial leaders in this state recog- nize the justice of the workers’ demands and stand ready to grant adequate relief. However, there is always a reactionary lobby at work at Olympia against any concession, however just, for the work- ing man. There is ‘such a lobby active there now. It is just about certain, nevertheless, that some sort of a bill will pass. The labor viewpoint is expressed by the Beeler bill, which calls for a 75 per cent increase in compensation, an increase which would be generous and perhaps not unreasonable, The administration is ful situation. It is plain treachery, double-cross- al casualty victims. creases. This is not enough to meet the needs. Either the Beeler bill should pass or the Clifford bill’s schedule should be amended sharply upward to call for, say, 50 per cent increase in compensation. One point to be borne in mind is that whatever schedule is fixed upon will come out of the industries of the state. It does not come out of taxation. However, the cost of administering the law, some $380,000 a bi- ennium, is borne by the general fund. Some of the cow county leg- islators are beginning to suggest pointedly that it, too, should be charged to the industries instead of to the state. They may bring this proposal. before the legislature as a tax reduction measure, and it will not be an easy matter to prove wherein they are wrong. But in any case, the compensation schedules should be sharply in- creased. The Star would like to see the Beeler bill pass or else the Clifford bill amended to provide far greater relief for the injured : the entire United States and Canada. The Seattle Star Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co. Pheoe Main 0490 Mew paper Baterprise Assooiation a ted Press Bervics. By mail, evt of eity, He menth; § menthe, the, $RTE: year, $5.08, tn the State of Wasdington. Outside of ¥ He per month, 14.80 for ¢ menths, er $7.00 per year, By carrier, @liman, Nicoll 4 Ruthman, Special Repr fies, Monsdneck bide; Chicago office, Trib Canadian Pacific bidg.; Boston office, Tremont didg. The Plain Duty of Congress Great Britain has accepted America’s offer modifying ‘the terms of Britain’s $5,000,000,000 debt to the United ’ States. : ; To make the offer binding, congress must ratify it. hat is, congress must amend the refunding act to con- to the new terms. Already there is talk of a terrific battle in congress inst ratification. There is talk of the present congress ting up and leaving Washington on March 4 without " having taken action. : Congress ought to ratify the offer before it quits the If it doesn’t a special sion will become imperative. " Ratification will be a big step in the direction of world ce and stabilization. The spectacle of the two greatest nations on the face the globe, the two nations upon which civilization at moment hangs all its hopes, haggling over their bts, certainly will not be conducive to a settlement, say, between France and Germany. Particularly destructive will the spectacle be if the pro- twisters of the lion’s tail fight the battle of mker Hill all over again and give the world the impves- ogether false—that Britain and America are out to fiy at each other’s throats. ‘ Congress must cut out that sort of stuff. In the rst place, it’s cheap. In the second place, the world an’t stand much more bickering. @ongress has been standing in the way of world re- tation long enough. Gangway! . Why do the things for which I exist, and for Or, have I been made for this, te tie warm?”—Marcus Aurelius, Automatic Divorce A new senate bill would give a divorce automatically, f application of either man or wife, in the case of es who had lived apart for five years or more. E hat do you think of the wisdom and propriety of such law? It is interesting, to say the least; a bit revolution- maybe. Do you favor it? Vrite in your opinion. ty per cent of the St. Louis children never have seen a sheep, makes them feel sheepish. getown, Del., boy stole to go to Florida. These bathing girt ple- should be censored. all the states cold enough for ice skating it has been learned they i wear petticoats. tw Xork fortune teller serving 20 years ls not’a happy medium. Sensible, Tho Young Once in a while The Star has a warm feeling for the fractory children, as in the present case of the Million- Littauer parents, of New York, who are trying to the marriage of their daughter, now in Paris, to 0 William Doeller. Pi and Ma Littauer object to Doeller, on the ground he isn’t their daughter Louise’s social equal. That’s 9 way to promote the making of the world safe for lise says: “I love Bill.” It’s sensible of Louise to Bill, if she can. It is certain that, if she marries low whom she doesn’t love, life will be just one awful formance after another. ill says: “I have a good job and can support a wife. ouise may be an heiress but she’s a good cook just the We'll take a little house and cut out the society unk.” This shows sense in Bill, as well as Louise. When the children have good sense and the logic on eir side, it is wisdom on the part of millionaire parents turn their minds from worship of Mammon to happy emplation of grandchildren. the brighter side. Aren't you glad our shortest month comes in of spring? @ certainly would hate to be vice-president. He lives in a hotel. ‘The world owes you # living, but you must show it what for. * Bonar Should Spank Baldwin We are rather inclined to whoop for Senator McKellar’ mand that President Harding call on Premier Bona w for a reprimand of Chancellor Baldwin, whose opinion congress and our funding commission is in “sneering ind uncouth language.” _, We don’t care a continental how “uncouth” old Baldwin | toward congress in session assembled or toward that Tosa commission, but when he pabliely exposes that congress is largely from “pastoral or agricultural” f , he roils us, course, it’s true, but why rub it In on our worthy “pastorals” and farmers? It is very y for a foreigner to publicly blame that any decent American element. ae | Blind pianist lost the church’ play than a piano, An netress in suing for divorce and custody of the reputation, Pittsburg bootlegger left only $1,500,000, the spendthritt inoney playing poker, which is harder Even the Southern states \It Stands to Reason Uncle Is Interested Phrenology in the Public Schools Editor The Star: Just @ little space in your paper n this crime and wer proposition. Tn my opinion we should cut out all this immigration. Use this coun try no more for a dumping ground. Then turn all of our schools into institutions to educate the human brain, civilize ft, tame it, culttvate tt Just put the study of phrenology into the schools as a leading study for all those in particular who are fitting themwuelves for teachers, and commence the study in the kinder. ganten. Pay the teachers up to the sixth grade better wages than any other teacher or principal, as the reat ts oany, Then the pupils would have ideas Editor The Star: Right Rev. Irving P. Johnson, Episcopal bishop of Colorado, offers the right view of Rev. Grant's “heresy,” in saying that the latter's offense consists solely in his betray. ing a trust which he accepted. And the consensus of church people will be that the thing for Rev. Grant to Go is to resign, right away. A sol- Editor The Atar: I wish to correct the wrong tm. jon Wable to go out from the alle#@d interview with me in The Star of Saturday headed ‘“Hazaltine Urges Abolishment of National Pro- hibition Department.” All I said was that tt was a dream of mine that some day the federal Prohibition department might be abolished and the burden Placed on the a#tate and county offi- cers. However, tho fact that pro It’s Proper to Get Out Hazeltine Says It’s Only His Dream of morality tnetilled into thelr young minds that would never Inave them. ‘The teacher would know better than to put a pupll to doing carpenter work or blackamithing who did not have mechanical ideas. The teacher would readily see that the child was adapted for something elae. If the teacher studied phrenology she would be able to change their habits and disposition by watching and study ing the ehtid. | Just a word about school dress. | Why not select some good, nent, | tasty atyle of dreas for girls al} alike | up to and including the eighth gtade? And boys the same? Those after that grade dreas to sult them- selves, Styles could be changed yoarly &f desired. rn eo dier of the Lord who Gentes the divinity of the Christ has no bust ness to be wearing an Eplecopalian untform. There's no question as to Rev. Grant's right to freedom of views, At present, he is a good deal like & French patriot garbed in a Ger) man uniform, and liable to be shot by his friends, R. F. P. hibition f# in the federal constitu- tion makes the enforcement of It a federal affair and yet I thoroty believe that it should be the duty of every prohibition agent to try and work himself out of a job by nq putting over prohibition that it will no longer be a subject for na tional legislation or consideration. The Landlord and His Profits Editor The Star: A Mr. Burton wishes to know how much longer you are going to con- tinue the fight for lower rents, 1 wish to inform him that he might ask you where to find the housing committee that was here to see to it that the landlords should not get too much interest on their money; maybe they will get him a tenant that will net him 7 per cent, I have beon m Seattle since 1900, and used to be a booster when T had the much-taiked-of Seattle spirit. But the taxes have taken all the “spirit” out of me; and not only that—I am termed as a landlord hog and a capitalist by the papers. Mr. Burton says he is making 4 per cent on his investment. He ts sitting pretty, you might say, as the | following filustration will show: LETTE Dear Folks: FROM V RIDGE PMiANN T ses the Hd has told us how we ought to grind our axea, and tall our legislators now it’s time to out the taxes, Ho says he wants us all to yell about appropriations, and tall the bunch the H. ©. L. is wrapped around taxations, Of course I'm glad to please the 14; so here and now I do it. T'll take the bunch of dope he said, and add my amen to tt. “The legislators will obey, tf all the people shout it,” waid Landon, and of course they may—but yet I sort of doubt tt. I thought our legislators knew tho people’s aituation, and ought to figure what to do, without our Information. But since they don't, It's up to un to make an awful holler; and if we make euffi- clent fuss they'll try to save a dollar, And yet it’s kind of hard, 1 know; for politica in showing the way two jobs are made to grow, where only one was growing. And while we Ike to shoot our face, we each are emphasizing that this or that 1s not the place to start economizing, And tho of course wo must admit we often need to bellow, we ought to learn to think a bit about the othur fellow. For we are still A welfish lot, and Juntice often wavers, and falls before the guy who's got the gall to ask for favorn, lined up for the Clifford bill, which calls for 15 to 25 per cent in- In 1906 I bo in the University - erty was bringing in $25 a month/on this property were while the A.Y.P. fair was on. ‘Then it was vacant for two years reason was: I did not accept $10| @ month of vacn were stolen per mor of those admired (7) lan receiving the enormous sum of $20 per month over the period The house was then vacant again for atx months. I finally man: aged to obtain $26 a month and am stil] getting that now, The property and been Improved since 1906 | getting | wigh relatic ue 7 year streets, on my In 1906 ¢ at $5,000. now I have a loan on this property of $2,500 and have had it since 1910, ht an #room house the plumbing fixtures From then until 1918 the house was rented for $10 and $1 1918 1 < hould be worth more|never be soldiers of industry than it now calls for. I pay $200 w year nt interest on it. This In 1906 the taxes 25, In 1920] they raised to $99.10, in 1921 to $115.09, and the statement which I have just received for 1 in $122.86, | Does this m P tu able, If the axing | at this rate for the next 10 years I| will be knocking the poorhouse now, n they keep hol lering that the taxes are coming down. But the trouble is that they are comir istrict. This prop: | is ‘ = SCIENCE Buried City. Tel El Amarna. Had Labor Problem. Wall Solved Problem. Professor Thomas Whittemore has | fer this transa pleted, the girl ents During this period || ALA xes keep on In certain Am! r customary at the back door of t is customa: 11 am on the road jto pay tn blan ery elect Occasionally it « down backwards. delivered to museums in Western To make a long story short, Il states some of hig finds in Egyptian have three other such examples! which I could readily give. So you| **Ploration. The family house have|see, Mr, Burton, you are not the} He ts the American y legen never are but I am |< the beach. If there/the Egypt Exploration society. The! husband unt! same rent | were taxes and the la | hee Ag cle nlc rd ir | society recently has made tntorest-|he becomes n 4 per cent| for their houses, th t bel n mm the buried royal] gome ¢ t » capital. | city of 17 Amarna spot and thereb day can| One of these was the finding of| to | only chance|® wall built around the section & landlord bas in a “Fat Chance.” | where the workmen jive. This was Yours truly for the purpose of concentrating A. B. PETERSON. |the entire “labor problem” in one In such for it director of nly pebble on hor handle strike oon and the rty was valued | ist and 2 culties Akhnaton and hi monotheistic, or MARRIAGE MODE erican Indian tribes for the bri ocours that, even ction haa beep com returns to her par- an event the bride groom must pay agein rent and tribal privi- upon the has chiléren. 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