The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 13, 1923, Page 8

| The Seattle Star Published Dally by The Star Publishing Co, 1807 Seventh Ave, Phone Malo 06 ‘ewapaper Bnterprise Asaoclation and United in Horvics, My Mall, out of city, 600 per month, 2 monthe $1.60, @ monthe 02,00, year 08.80, By carrier, city, be a month, : art Niel ‘@. Ruthme Bpe Representatives, San Franoteoo Hide; Chicago ofticn, Tribune Hida; New York offic 8 Pacific Midg; Horton office, Tremont Bids Ask Dad ‘HE Christmas son. <A wail of sympathy goes up from cartoonists and columnists the country over Yor Poor Father, the man who foots the bills, It’s wasted effort. Remember, boys, there’s just as much pleasure in be- Ang the man behind the giving as there is in being the person that gives. For to him is reflected not only the lappiness of the recipient, but the happiness of the giver in being able to give, as well, Ask Dad. Mebbe, if the president gets a big enough scare out of the report that | the White House is an old fire trap, he will sympathize with measures de- “signed to reduce the risk in a lot of less expensive tenements, Lots of ’Em Here MAN in Quincy, Mass., offers $100 to anyone who will coin a word that will reflect on prohibition 7 88 much scorn, derision and contempt as the word “scab” ‘in the labor field. We know a number of wets in Seattle who could win ‘this prize in a twinkling if allowed more space instead |} of limited to one word. Nothing quite as expressive {and futile) as a wet harping on his pet peeve. _. The French are going to build a railway over the desert of Satara, but ‘M must get along without American support, That territory is too dry _ for our travelers. More and More and More MV[ASSACHUSETTS will prosecute all farmers who failed to comply with the new state law that re- ‘quires them to plow up or burn all cornstalks or stubbles by December 1. It’s getting so every human action is regulated by a Taw of some sort or othe:. However, many of our laws are ignored shortly after they're passed, and eventually ‘forgotten entirely. ASk a lawyer. Nick Longworth, new Old Guard generalissimo, begins his first cam: ‘ paign with a retreat. Well, {t's an unusual general that knows when to _ Start running. It's Worth No More AVE you seen the new dollar bills? President Cool- idge got the first one off the presses. Later there “will be new issues of $5, $10 and $20 bills. The changes &re made to check counterfeiting, Each denomination of new bills will be distinctly different from the others, to prevent the “raising” of bills by such tricks as changing the numbers. The dollar still is worth only 62 cents, compared with its value in 1913. There seems to be no way to rectify that. Time will take care of it. If history repeats, 62 ‘cents saved now will be worth $1 later—in buying power. __ Vets’ bureau investigation is duly closed and the scandal turned over to Attorney General Daugherty for prosecution. Don't anybody hold his breath until somebody goes to jail. Politics "RE entering what hunters would call the open season for national politicians. Governmental lead- "rs and the rivals who want their jobs are due for much ing. Such is democracy’s system of finding out ‘what the average politician looks like behind his mask. A spectator, watching the game from the sidelines, ' can’t help reflect that politics is the most thankless of all in occupations, despite its extreme importance. Also, that democracy’s chief weaknesses are due to considering peices as a sport rather than as a serious business. Our lers usually ride to power on a tide of emotions in- Stead of calm reasoning. Jack Walton says he will keep on fighting. Shadow boxing, probably. Our Biggest Need N=“, HAVEN policemen nearly had heart failure i when Jacob Abraham, banana peddler, walked in with a $20 bill which a customer had given him by mis- take, and asked the police to help him find the owner. How many of our big problems, little ones also, would disappear if all of us were as honest as Jacob Abraham? What this country needs, more than anything else, is ‘common honesty. Ef@ucation may be priceless, as they say, but you can’t make Dad be Heve it, Rents Go On Forever i[NCOME tax statistics tell the “rent” story as it has been and as it is today. In 1920, we had “prosperity” and large wages and Jarge incomes and large profits for our corporations. In 1921, we had “deflation” and “hard times” and re duced wages and profit and incomes. Incomes from wages, salaries and commissions fell off by almost $1,500,000,000 in 1921 as compared with 1920, Incomes of corporations fell off by 95 per cent. Incomes from interest and dividends fell off. Everything indicating prosperity Wealth fell off—everything except the income from rents, And the income from rent in 1921, the year of hard times, was $130,000,000 more than the income of 1920, High rents go on forever. and accumulated Comparative peace {s sald to prevail in Ireland now, not excepting ven Boston and New York Your Time OUNG men who are wasting their time should res and ponder the following, written some 200 ye. "go by the philosopher, Voltaire: ; “Time is of all things in the’world the longest and the Bhortest, the quickest and the slowest, the most minute and the greatest, the most neglected and the most re- garded—without which, nothing can be done, which de- yours all that is little and gives permanent life to all that is great. “Nothing is longer than time, because it is the measure of eternity. Nothing is shorter, because it is insuffiice nt for all our plans. Nothing is slower for him who wait nothing more rapid for him who enjoy “Time stretches out to the infinite in greatness. It is infinitely divisible in littleness. All men neglect time, All regret its loss. Nothing can be done without time It wipes out all that is unworthy of posterity mortalizes great things. , and ir The procrastinator, who habitual until ¢ morrow the things that should be done today, will read Voltaire’s bit of philosophy coneerning time and reflect: “A fine sentiment, swell piece of writing.” That man is doomed to go thru life BOSSED The man who later will be the will ponder Volta s philosoy ing, and redouble his efforts shine: juts off 0- procrastinator’ , recognize it to make hay while BOSS the That famous poem must now be changeé somewhat, for a Cabot has talked to Magnus, also, ———— apap mereree Thin in B morrow, BY JO) CARSON ASHINGTON, Dec, 13. To understand tho ratiroad problems of today and of 1917, when the government took over the lines, nome railroad history must be recalled, In 1828, the cornerstone was laid for what ts now the Baltl- more & Ohio system, ¥rom that time on railroad enterprises boomed, Untold prot- its were mado in speculation, Many of tho grent fortunes of today were ontablished, ‘The fi- Nancial history is pretty sordid, The financial attitude towards the public wan aptly expressed by the railroad promoter who nald “the public be damned,’* Then came a day of reckon ing. Tho public began to get some inside information about railroad promoting; confidence in railrond securities waned, and #o did railroad development. For example, production in our ble industries increases at the rate of 36 to 4 per cent a year From 1908 to 1921, railroad facilities increased by only 7 per cent—about % per cent each year, CRISIS ARRIVES WHEN WAI IS DECLARED Then came 1917, war and a crinis, Tho raflroads claimed capital Invested then of about $19,700, 000,000, On most of that—be- cause mort of it was funded debt in the form of bonds— Big Employers Seek to Discredit Ellis Island BY W. H. PORTERFIELD LLIS ISLAND, New York, In their efforts to discredit the restricted Immigration idea and thus let down the bars to hordes of Euro- pean paupers ¢ employ labor have resorted to untr propag Mr. Curran fa doing all in his power, and apparently with suc ceas, to prevent this sort of spirit at Ellis Island SMILES famous Fr seo why girls Wo can. pun stories of cruel treatment, of the he newly arrived y the Jow have been broad. over the } ew of these stories had a ba- ais in truth, The vast majority have been out of whole cloth. Here at Ellis Island the uma sufferin Bile stockings are worn for more |than two reasons sons, and every o Ile often looks that way. known dancer has married Famous people seldom just It ls always “again,” make him comfe in nearly every ted everywhere, explain hat everything is free, and be paid any. Being famous has its @rawbacks | Jukt when you ere getting used to a husband it's time to change, Christmas story: The family has had dad's swell present charged. Tomorrow, they nay, never comes. Just the same, its bills do aimisioner in the tne rest of sympathy. For example, otherleas babe wa: be deported when the Christmas !s dashing toward us at the rate of 60 seconds a minute. | You have walted too late to shop Shop now and enjoy the rush “Dear Santa: P other month in wh! ping before Christmas,” rm fell in Ic early. ahead and later jo our shop and baby been brought If woman's piace ian’t in the home today the man’s Isn't there tonight 4 what of tomorrow? club, a Telling It to Congress USING THE WHOLE LOG W L, taking the logs that come in, they n sawed for lumber | then the «i taken to a resaw nd sawed; hing that will be 48 th of a y Curran was in University 2 York, when conversation with the walter disclosed the fact that, altho he has lived here 10 years, he still cherishes a feel ing of annoyance. It came about this way He had just landed from Ireland when an official called out, ‘Take off your hat’ “And I had fo it," narrated the wal ere wasn't the slightest hense in it; I was no where that such a thing would be required. I knew it and the knowledge made me mad."* hes in length and the wi | lath, is lath. Anything | ~ jess than wide, 11 to 12 The other stuff that ts left ts ground and goes to heat the paper mill nerate steam. Our present plar in to utilize that {n the form of wall board insulation. ‘The paper mill is even using the bark, which paradox that is taken off in a drum, and the ortion to our own)screenings and things of that sort 1 bo our|are 1 in inaulation—w. H KENETY before senate select com Imittee on reforest LETTER V RIDGE dining the ba a an eae yao rarest b used for 3 inches The simple believeth every word; but the prudent man looketh well to his going —Prov, xiv.:15. and pre ERO TANIN Dec. 13, 1923 > Dear Av ge Manr n ban gone and call some fallers “dumb t hen, and give me awful bav lost his goat about das Hi men,” and he get mad y ing out for ever letter vot yun to read d of pill yot m need to make en t ban yoshing in my & mountain from mi jer, and got so hot aro’ 80 Sven, sit down eat dan eggs (A and hurt das heart bene ting full n single unkind to miners vich en milet Ay like to see en d hel dri happy toller’s day e all seems light yen gl ou don't give da. Vell, Leap ¥ LDA ( they had to pay interest. To pay tho Interest and prevent bankruptcy, most of the roads permitted thelr employes and their equipment to suffer. The moralo of the employes was at low ebb and President Smith of the New York Central tentified that “95 per cent of SCIENCE Microscope Valuable. Opened Up New World. Invented in 1590. Tho invention of greatest import ance to the human | was the microncope. race probably | ‘This invention opened to examina-| |tlon the world of Inviatble life. The| ery of bacteria alone, thru the ope, followed by study and dge of this form of life, was t of human achieve No His } ak of the ga the tlelen on the | Carson, of Car= pe vals 5 mae The Railroad Questior. tho railroads ts labor.’ Railroad executive tentitied, without exception, before the Interstate Commerce commis wion that thelr employes were underpaid. They in. creased rates Incroane the pay, they contended, A orn: n t comminsion that investi din 1918 reported tha “ifty-one percent of the em. ployes received lews than’ $16 a month in December, 1917, and 40 por cent recelved jess than $100 a month, ‘The dollar at that time was buying only 71 cents worth of goods as com- pared with the dollar of 1919." MORALE, SHATTERED, f RUN DOWN little morale, no groat loyalty, constant jabor troubles, resignations on reslg nations. One railroad executive testified his shop force was turned over three times in one year. The equipment was about as bad condition, railroad president th ed before the Interstate Com- merce commission testified, The roads, they sald, could not make adequate improvements 1 use th could not finance them, ‘Temporary repairs were made to permit operation of locomotives and cars. “We are not paying the rates and we are not getting the serv- ice,” naid Daniel Willard, prest- dent of the Baltimore & Ohio, before the Interstate Commerce commission in November, 1917. He wan speaking of labor con- ditions, Bpeaking of equipment, ard then sald: “Wo are trying to é0 more business than we properly can do with our plant, and we are not doing {t efficiently.’ The testimony of other of- ficials of other roads was simi- lar, and in most instances the picture painted of demoralized working forces and inadequate wanted in just ry t appear #o wi THE DIFFERENCE BY BERTON BRALEY ILL plays pool with a ak Learned by practicing year on year uncanny n Ket nd is steady, his brain is cle: Ho plans and studies hin mode of p With concen invention was per- He's always figuri Galileo, a few years , made some improvements. In & countryman of Jansen's. med Lesuwenhoek, discovered bac. . which may be regarded an the st living creat but which amense power for both good 4 evil Y Since that is the task You'd thi The coll doc and a ¢, that all plants mais are made up of minute 4 that every living creature gins its life a al io > the microsoo; in the hands of acient It has revealed many is unfolding others e! all over the cell, wan UT no- non every shot ng, doping, weighin Which chance is proper, and which ts not. ET pool ts merely Bill's recreation, A game he plays when the work-hours end, An office job ts hia real vocation; On THAT his room and his board depend. which he's living, k he'd tend to it And give jt at least the thoug To educate himself in pool 5 2 rule, he's giving Bill dawdles and shirks He views his job with @ lint! He loafs and stalls and he f. And merely figures on f Yet still he growis at his poor His Tho all he needs is the Applied to work that (Copyright, 1923 ' It's cheaper to marry than {t = to Jaive her a Christmas present Tt “rotten boss” and his “me: given Reliable Watches at Low Prices Yankee Radiolite This le the New Yankes, equipped for telling time ia the derthep ghty ood for warnag portman, motor, ¢ so long. for Every Member of the Family HERE’S no gift like a watch, nothin used so mych, consulted so often, carrie d The Ingersoll you give nowwill be ticking Christ- mas Greetings every day throughout the year, Your dealer can show you Ingersolls to fit every pas and boys and girls. Radiolite d the dark. Jeweled models in nickel and filled cases. urpose, Sizes for men, women, als that tell time in gold- Prices from $2.00 to $10.00 Reliance fall Deldge model; the the result of Ingere onomy methe 4 Day of Reckoning for Roads When | Outbreak of War Brought Crisis . equipment was worse In that condition, the govern. mont stepped in when railroads leading into Atlantic orts wero blockaded, allies were cry for foodstuffs, and a wor nization of railroad executives pleaded, by infer ence, the Inability of the roads to moet the crinis, oe Another story by Carson will follow. the wa Potential Presidents Another of a Series of In- formal Sketches of Men Who'd Like White House Job DAVID A. REED—Lawyer. Born December 21, 1880, at Pittsburg, Pa. |Graduate of Princeton and Untiver- | | | | sity of Pitteburg. Practiced law in Pittsburg, 1902-1917. Major, Field artillery, 1917-1919. Decorated for bravery. after war. Elected to United States nenate In November, 1922. Term ex pires 1929. Republican. 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