The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 2, 1924, Page 8

Nae eT “ae . : Er THE SHATTLE STAR WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1924. GAINS OF LABOR IN BRITAIN GOOD HUNTIN’!! The Seattle Star Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co, 1207 Beventh Ave, Phone MA in-0400, Newspaper Knterprise Association and United 9 Horvios, Dy Der month, 3 months $1.00, ¢ months $2.00, year 68,60, nth, . Special Neprerentatives. } Chicago office, Tribune Bi Boaton office, Tremont Nid Soon It May Be Too Late ‘HERE is real cause for alarm in statistics, disclosed in The Star this week, showing Seattle's Japanese population growing five times as fast as its white, This situation is nothing new in history. Time and time again an inferior nation has crept furtively upon the territory of a stroger, more intelligent people and slowly engulfed it by sheer force of numbers. Inferior nations commonly multiply with a swiftness amazing to members of higher races, just as the lower animals invariably produce more offspring than those of higher intelligence. One begins to question whether our lawmakers in Washington, viewing our Japanese menace thru the tinted glasses of distance, have not postponed action too long. Is the seed of the sun, sown here diligently by brown men of alien habits, alien thought, alien morality, alien ideals, to increase so rapidly that our white su- premacy, proudly developed thru the years, crumbles be- fore the avalanche of brown bodies, conquering by sheer numbers? The ’Phone Obstacle Race HE latest victory of the cities over the telephone trust, by which a postponement of a raise in rates is secured, is not conclusive. But it is valuable, never- theless. Just now the cities are fighting for, and the company against, time. Before many years pass manual tele- phones in all probability will have given way to the vastly more efficient and less expensive automatic variety. And when that happens the telephone companies’ hopes of getting a raise in rates will disappear. In the face of cheaper and more efficient operation the company would have no chance to get a higher schedule. The cities’ obvious course, therefore, is to hold rates at their present level during the next few years. Once they go up it will be a hard matter, either under manual or automatic operation, to get them down again. Every postponement secured is a victory for the cities. Just now the telephone controversy, which has been run- ning along for about 10 years, more or less, has devel- oped into an obstacle race. They Should Worry vAS a race (the native Hawaiians) they are fond of pleasure and of giving pleasure, with both of which thrift and continuous work interfere. They are thus generous, lavish and impecunious. Indeed, a na- tive who hoards his money is regarded by his fellows as ‘no better than a foreigner. David Starr Jordan. Let’s all go to Hawaii to live! But, come to think of it, that country isn’t run by Ha- Waiians any more, darn it! The Kind Seattle Wants HE current Literary Digest broadcasts to the world the fact that in the matter of death rates in 67 American cities with populations over 100,000 Seattle stands next to the lowest. Seattle's rate is 9.6 per 1,000. Akron, Ohio, the only lower city in the list has a rate of 7.5 per 1,000. “The low rate in Akron,” says that magazine, “is partly due to the physical examination of prospective em- ployes demanded by the large rubber companies in con- nection with employers’ liability laws.” Credit for Seattle’s low rate is given to its climate, _favoring outdoor sleeping and recreation, to lack of slums, to pure water, pure milk and pure food. That’s the kind of advertising we need in Seattle. hat kind of advertising, more than most anything else we can think of, will speed the growth of Seattle and the Northwest. One Benefit NDEPENDENT of any question of whether or not the United States should entangle itself with European affairs, the participation of two “unofficial representa- dOur Leap Year advice to single men {s look before you leap. Wear your Christmas neckties all during Leap Year and they will help lyou stay single, Get a good haircut and tell her you ofsabum. Will keep is Leap Year. Asking her why ohe doesn’t dress | instead of going so naked may keep you single this Leap Year, Grow a mustache, This will keep} jyou alngle during Leap Year, | Quit shaving during Leap Year and you are safe, No girl will propose to @ human halrbrush. Put rubber in your tobacco and smoke a strong pipe to remain sin glo during this Leap Year, Tell her n of the other girls to marry It will keep you Nover having your shoes shined or trousers pressed will help you stay single this Leap Ye: Bobbed hair wi. ly. If soft and fluffy, it will catch a whole n ha man's tle | | | Going about with holes tn your socks will keep you single during | Leap Year. Go to nee y to read. This will } Congress May Be Idling, But C. Bascom Slemp’s on the Job Washington Dureas, 1322 New York Ave, can make nd day, while the pussycats play, ts recited by Pat Harrison, democrat, tn the U penate. Pat's remarks are quo Verbatim from the Congressional Record. Mr, Harri “1 shall ocet the floor for only @ moment, 3 President has transacted very litt! business, but I wish to attention of senators to the fact that even tho we h function, ju h I hold has been laid wu senators, there is dividual fn the who Is function! ing full w “I notice in tions for x came to the sen Jecture; but o: comes to the ter in Califc & place w tro. The course, is 4 from old Span {sh words which mean tho cer ter—the bell “The a to ving: th inated. In more fortunate, aster in named led Echo. I do not I do not know why Din. widdie ts #0 fortunate. of Dan gots a postmaster, Pros. nomination, as do age, and Jast, bt I congratulate sympathize with FEARED BY OLD PARTY HEADS BY MILTON BRONNER ONDON, Jan, 2—We munt -4ehange tho method of election to parliament’? This pania ery 1s now heard among conservatives and Mberals, Hostile on many points of polley, tho adherents of both the old his- tore parties see the same bogey the labor party. It's a bogey because It Is #o- clalintie, It declares for nation- alization of the coal mines and railways, and demands a capital levy. It whyn if it was all right for the country during wartime to conscript men's bodies, it Is equally right now to conscript wealth to wipe out the war debt, When Premier Baldwin, with a wafe, conservative majority, dls solved ymariiament and went to the country on a protective tar iff platform, it was hoped labor would get a black eye, With Lloyd George and Asquith pateh- ing up tholr differences, {t was hoped the liberals would once more at Jeant take second place, But they didn’t. ‘The conserva- tives got 264 members, labor got and the liberals 149, Labor therefore once again finds itself the second party in strength, Not only that, but no party has a ma- jority over all, So another elec- tion Js imminent, ELECTED BY MINORITIES, OLD PARTY MEN CLAIM The old partion protest many Iabor membern were elected by minorities, For instance, in Northampton, Miss Margaret Tondfield was elected on 15,556 votes, But the conservatives got 11,520, and the liberals 11,342, It's a-wrong mystem, say tho members of the two old parties. Tho labor people come right back by showing that 4 conserva- tives, or 97 per cent; 48 Mberals, or 32 per cent, and 71 laborites, or 7 per cent, were all elected by minority vote. So the old parties are flounder. ing around trying for a way to block the labor party, Firat they thought of proportional repre- rentation until It was pointed out that under this, in tho districts where thers were contests, in« rtead of 214 conservatives there would have been 207, 168 labor. Item Instead of 189, and 164 lb. corals Instead of 139, There would null have been a stalemate in which no pi had a majority, PLAN TO COMBINI: 18 CONSIDERED Two other plans are consid ered. In one cane, voters would mark their first, second and third choices. ‘The preferences shown could then be used if no eandi- date had a clear majority over all, But the plan moat favored Be ae, fs womething like tho Wrench, 1¢ no candidate has a eb « think in @ #econd ballot all the members of the oid par. yy OE € Jey F hi 4 tlegs would unite nst the la Frieda’s Follies || ter ocnataate vepuracy a | whether the man running was liberal or conservative, WAITRESSES are #0 strange STRANGE and humorous, IT IS hard to follow their humor, BUT IT sometimes amuses, | KVEN IF it ts at your own ex- pense, THE PORTIONS at this restaurant WERE bird-like in proportions. I HAD been monopolizing the con- versation, AT MY table, WHO would have thought a ‘The following table, showing how many members to parila ment labor has elected in the last quarter century ves a vivid picture of how tho progresstves have gained in Great Britain and the old parties are fright Number ‘Total Elected, Votes, of 114,003 1906 .rescoeeee 54 448,808 1910 (January). 40 1910 (December) 42 1918 + OL ‘i 4 WOULD have known? I WAS really provoked, AS THE portions were set down before us. “YOU MUST take me for a canary | bird,” 1 SAID, with a frigid stare, 7 AITRESS smiled, eaying, | Leap ¥ is gone. “I WOULD have agreed with you, ba: HAD YOU sald a mocking bird.” gle during Leap Year, LETTER FROM VRIDGE MANN Jan. 2, 1924, Dear Folks: Let others sing of gods of yore, and goddesses as well, who played, in ages gone before, the game of Raisingell. Terpst- chore, the dame of dance, or Bacchus, god of beer—they haven't got a single chance of being noted here! For after all the Christmas spree, with nightly hours I keep, it’s Mr. Morpheus for me—t guy that gave us sleep: From Christmas Eve, when Santa Claus had kept me up till late, for every night without a pause, I’ve had a midnight date. And New Year's Eve and New Year's night {t's been 48 bad or worse; I've seen enough electric light to run a unt. verse! So after all the Christmas spree I'm very free to say; It's Mr. Morpheus for me—the god of Hiit-the-Hay! A giddy time a night or so Is fine beyond a doubt, but get a dozen in a row—it knocks a fellow out. And tho I like the holidays, with all the joy they k I'm ruined, wrecked and in a daze; need a week of So now—ho-hum! I'm glad I'm free to quit the Jife I've led; it’s Mr. Morpheus for me—the god of Go-to-Bed! Only 12 more risky months befor madam, Chew tobacco. Helps you stay sin. CHICAGO Foote Crow, cator and at North suddenly hi CURRE Makes It tives” from this country on the committees that will in- | single during Leap Year. 4 saga the Hat Wi in, a vestigate Germany's financial capacity will reap some | oe pects tee! oe é ~ s, . 5 coat of on nd tre o o a is very for . ¥ These committees will seek, among other things, to | cther to wtay single in Leap Year. | 8 tho stato which is repres find out just where German post-war receipts have ap licen bay ‘been going. They will seek to locate credits that aie feat enjoy these results—you, too, can get new speed—new rush in the pick-up—new power on hills When sho puckers up her Ips ask tainly functioning whil May | idling away the time | the game, Forty-two ‘the big German manufactuters have concealed in this oe tenia and other foreign countries; to get the inside knowledge cedar fear of Lod German “konzérns” or holding companies, owned Gone “0 to places fn Vi in Germany and operated thruaut the world, are financed. or wonderful places with beautiful Germans have pleaded poverty. If, as has been WHAT FOLKS names. Let mo read.a fe charged, German industry is thus caching its wealth re IQ DF Dit aiikawie? o ea /twhere'the allies cannot take it, reparations demands may ARE SAYING tr, 08 40 also Richlands, ‘be altered. : Even tho the reparations: committees find it impossi- ble to get this money, they will know it was there. 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His clothes nuld be empl rpuo we have tw _ are frequently worn by men they don’t fit, tos was obeyed. plied with but « Yes, and Uncle Sam ‘should be a model everything PEO ge nk. eae | his Lag bat be meee rene ecg latde ig to Arie lips shail have destruction —Proy ment are due to office holders. THE GOVERN- / \your own moral. Alphonse Karr,