The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 14, 1923, Page 8

The Seattle Star Published Dally by The Star Pudlishing Co, 1207 Seventh Ava, Phone prise Association and United Bross Borviog, Ny onth, 3 months $1.60, @ months $2.00, year $3.60, nth. 1 & Ruthman, ort nadnock Bldg; Chicago ofticn, Tribune Ida; Canadian Pacific Wag.; Boston office, Tremont widg, Special Representatives, San Francteco Now York office, Stopping Future Wars HE kiddies are going to have a fine Christmas, judg- ing by this year’s imports of toys—larger than ever before. Three-fourths of these imported toys are from Gernsany, mostly from Nuremburg, which has been the toy-making center of the world for 700 years. ’ Germany formerly specialized in military toys, espe- cially lead soldiers. This year, instead of military play- ; , she has concentrated on Noah’s Arks and indi- Vidual animal toys. An excellent tendency, for toys that suggest war help perpetuate the military spirit. Senator Lodge decides to plgeon-holo the administration world court Lodge should worry if some international difference heads us into war. He's too old to fight, Firm of New York book publishers is said to be bidding for President Coolidge’s message to congress, on the theory that It's the best mystery story of the year, Sports—Ancient and Modern IFTY THOUSAND athletes, representing 52 nations, will take part in the 1924 Olympic games in France. The big sessions will be in May, June and July, tho the Winter sports events will be decided at Chamonix in Jan- wary and February. Your thoughts turn back to that super-contest between nations—the world war—and then back to the days when two armies, drawn up in battle array against each other, decided the issue by a personal combat between two men, one from each army. That spirit was the basis of what we call modern sports. Senator Spencer has reintroduced his bill for the creation of a com- mission to decide, by test, what is really “intoxicating iquor.” Now, what good patriot will come forward to serve his country? Congress has opened again and two familiar Bills are belng re-intro- duced at the capitol—Taft and Bryan. Business RANCE continues selling more to Great Britain than she buys in return. Each month finds France 80,- + 000,000 francs “to the good” when she balances her books ond weer in the matter of trade with the British. This trade advantage has its political side. French diplomats are great emotional actors. But they’re sensi- ble enough to do a lot of thinking before breaking with their best customer. On the other hand, France is buying from America nearly twice as much as she’s selling us. “Just-Call-Me-Jim” Davis, secretary of labor, asks congress to force all aliens to register, carry cards, and pay fees for the privilege of breath- ing. Jim's forgot a lot since he was an immigrant himself, seeking the land of the free. ‘ soto 28 ats Story says food lines forming In Berlin this winter. No doubt those hungry Germans are hoping for the wurst. Riley and Children ONAN DOYLE stirs up a hornet’s nest in Indiana by saying that James Whitcomb Riley, the greatest poet of childhood in his generation, cared nothing for children—in fact, was bored by them. Some psycholo- gists claim that writers do their best work on subjects they’re not in sympathy with, just as many a drunk has given fine “dry” lectures. Riley, however, adored children—so much so that he often affected a dislike for them, to conceal a sentiment s0 keenly developed in him that he was almost ashamed of it. Many a man has tears in his eyes while he’s blus- The Railroad Questio | Paper of “Financial Orgy” Days Still Hampers Roads HDITOWS NOTH—This ts tho hird of a werios of articles on Ire ington fourth article will appear Comorrew, BY JOHN CARSON WAsenicten Deo, 14,—-Dan- fel Willard and Julius Kruttschnitt, railroad executives who always represent the rail: roads, insist the roads did. not “break down" at tho outset of the war, The answer is had tn testl mony of railroad executives, President Rea of the Pennsyl- vania, in 1917, testified his pas: wenger cars were only retired “for ropatra necessary for wafety.” “Tho railroads are operating with insuffictent and nocessarity inefficient labor, due largely to inexperience,” he added, “Locomotives, improperly pro- pared for rogd service, break: down en route involving delays to traffic." Commissioner Aitchison, of tho interstate commerce commisaton, said after a study of the situa. tion that “the conclusion which we all reached was that existing conditions were intolerable and constituted a menace to the pub. He wafety.”” TESTIMONY SHOWS CAUSE AS WELL Quotations from other railroad executives could be given with. outend. In every instance, they paint a picture of railroads faced with-a crivis and unable to meet it.’ The demand on transporta- tion, at that time, was extreme, of course, and the railroads had permitted their equipment to run down and their labor forces to be ix also shown. roads were forced to on bonds, In addi. had to pay dividénds support ® bonds were “collateral trust source of mudh ral lal iniquity on ain certain bonds. known as arily, a railroad bond ta on the railroad ve acknowl § ¢ drugs and med I have NY my pay dividends, the bond Interest To some extent, there collat- eral trust bonds are ike ® net enclosing other railroad paper, If the net breaks, the whole financial safety ts endangered, Many students think that dan- wer Was not far distant when the government stepped in and that wo might have had bankruptcy after bankruptey, In other words, the government was a savior, More than that, collateral trust bonds have been the source of some railroad iniquity. Two instances are sufficient now, Take the Boston & Maine, It was @ prosperous road, conserva- tively financed and efficiently managed, It had paid 7 per cent on its stock, ‘Tho stock was quoted at $190; Then the New Maven got control, Tho next year, the gross revenue to the Boston & Maino increased, but the profits declined, ‘TRe net income dropped to 1 per cent and the stock went down to $40 a share, B. & 0. LOSES 825,000,000 IN THE SALE OF C, &D, The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton story is as bad. The road went into the hands‘of a receiv. er in 1905 after years of ploitation, Subsequently, J. P. Morgan got control of it, and it way understood he was going to sell {t to the Erle, The Erie re- But by some | tries may leave her that w method, never adequately ex> plained, Morgan forced the road on tho Baltimoro & Ohio, Not long thereafter, tho Baltimore & Ohio had to get rid of it—prob- ably after Morgan's purpose was weryed. It has been charged tho Baltimore & Ohio lost some $25, 000,000 for ity stockholders in that deal, The Chicago & Alton story was #o bad that President Roonevelt classed one of the financiers as an “undesirable citizen." Thruout railroad history of tho past Ix found one financial orgy after another, Happily, {t seems that day in gone, But most of that “paper’—and ft i Ittle else —{9 still represented in tho rail- roads and dividends or interest must be paid on it. ‘That is why the roads slipped until they could not pay wages and could not maintain equipment and, hence uld not meet the war emergency when ft came, It was then the government stepped in, hone handicaps to successful operation existed dnd @ war called for service and*put a demand on the country never before experienced. | (Another Carson story will follow), Hungary 1s not as hungry as sho was, She wants a loan, Oth Mussolini's still running italy, but we don't know where to. One-half the world doesn’t know why the other half fights, coun- SMILES They are opening Tut's tomb tn Heypt. Hootleggers will claim that iy whero they got It. Poland haa cut down government expenses to even long than twieo the amount they whould be. Mustapha Kemal continues to reign In Turkey, Old-timors way it ts the hardest reign in years. So many things are happening in Russia a plan to make the days @ few hours longer 18 needed, Gen. Motaxes’ plang met with fail- ure in Greece, but general high taxes preyall In America. Austria in doing nicely, consider. ing her bad environment, Switzerland continues the home of fino watches, Her best watch at present 1s watching France, Holland may loso her biggest cheese. Hoe wants to go back and bo kaiser of Germany again. Baron Marks is the new forelgn minister of Scandinavia, but no kin to Germany's barren marks, Rumania lives next to Russia, spite of It being a bad neighborhood rents are high, N in flirtatious manner, | YOUR left shoulder, ASK FOR a bite of yours, me. 1 GAVE him a bite, In} HE DID that once too often with CONGRESS! Senator Dill Gives Us His Views of It! BY W. 1. PORTERFIELD WV sesiNG fON, Deo. 14,—In the fall of 1914, most of the world outside the United States being at war, the people of the Fifth Washington district elected a young chap to congress on the Wilson platform of "he kept us out of war,” ‘Thin young fellow, ©. C, Dill, the only democrat from our mont northwenterly, state, was the “biby of the house,” belng under 0, and he cut quite a wide swath one way and another, but his chief “interest lay in an intense desire to keep his country at peace, Then one day Prosident Wil- non nuked congress for a declara- tion of war against Germany. ‘There were 60 on that day who voted against the president, and in the list was Dill of Washing- ton, This big, good-natured look ing blond giant from the plains ot the Palouse, knew he was pronouncing his politieal death sentence when he cast his yoto against our entrance {nto the war, But he did it just the same, and at the next opportunity his old friends elected him to stay at home. But he didn’t mind that, for he loves Spokane, “capital of the Inland Empire,” and so he re- opened his law office and kept on making new friends and holding the old ones pretty generally. No one questioned Dill's hon- enty or sincerity and last fall his second chance came when the whole state turned out and elected him the first democratic nenator in the history of Wash- ington! Dill iy still little more than a Kid, only 39, and {t may bo that his political fe 1s just begin. ning, Dill's political philosophy in cludes this: he people don't care much about congress. They aren't much interested {n all these things we prate about down here and to which the newspapers give #0 much valuable space, The world court and league of nations mean all the same thing to them. All most of them know ia that they don’t want their boys to go to war. The folky hate war passlonately and are against going in to help anyone, “Folks are interested in mak- ing 4 living. Up in my country they have to work mighty hard and long to make both ends meet and these abstract controversial questions mean considerable leng than nothing to them. “They don’t think much of the tariff, either. Their chief com. Plaint i» against the railroads) and that’s why I want to get on| the Interstate commerce commit. tee, 1 think the raliroads have got to have something done to them, Government ownership? Of course, that would be a solu tion, but it isn’t posable now." A THOUGHT | He, that being often hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly | edy—Prov, xxix.:1. eee be destroyed, and that without rem- lA STUBBORN mind conduces as | little to wisdom or even to © | knowledge ag a stubborn temper to happiness.—Southey. The One Gift That All the Family Can Enjoy In our Phonograph Department we offer for your selection all the newest models i \ } I ) § Ss of the three leading maki - come. oe . not ag to ey th em all, but the few shown above will give you an idea of the Siem models. 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