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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-27

should Not Wait
The city should not wait until
the lobby is packed with men ask.
Ing for Increased wages. The city
should no, put off the readjustment
Of the wage untii the first of Jan.
nary next year. when the budget.
which will be fixed next month.
win become effective The city
should 80 to the men with fair
and square adjus,mlnt. and do so
at once.
You, the members OF the board.
have in your employ great many
men. other depaT Ttments OF the city
government also employ thousands.
These men must be paid enough to
live IN deeency and comfort II is
neither good business nor good NOR.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-27
WHY THE STAR PICKED
BIG TIMBER"

The Star obt1iBed rights publish Big Timber" that
q
Fify-Three"
0 a They
be given Big Timber Sinclair
pointed Pacific North
who his fie knows the outo
His his element
other
novel. will begin
weeks
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-27

ais to wait untii you grant the
wage grudgingly under pressure. q
ask the members OF the board or
public works 10 Immediately investi-
gate. in their different departments.
and recommend TO the mayor and
the council just what YOU believe tho.
wage in your department should be.
Il may be necessary to pass a defi-,
cheney ordinance in order to meet
the immediate increase. but IL this
immediate increase is fair and just.
no member OF the council should
vote against II. and the mayor
should and will sign the bill. to be-
come operative upon its passage"
The board Of pulic works decided
to call a special meeting within the
next few days to plan the invesuga-
ton.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-27
STRIKE CALLED
IN CANADA CITY

OTTAWA, Ont. June ia gen
cral strike has been declared In
Brandon. Manitoba. 70 force rein
statement OF men who lost their
positions a. a result OF the recent
waikout. according to dispatch
received here today.
Settlement of the Toronto street
railway strike by a compromise was
expected today.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-27
LIBERTY BONDS QUOTED

NEW YORK Juns s7.--G.lberty bond
quotations today avs. ,ss.ao first ts.
tpasii second &c. taasoi first ~ e.
,es 80; second tA's. satlt; third ~. =.
$3.50. fourth as. ,otft. Victory sAs.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-27
Order Public
Works Board
toMakeProbe

Mayor Hanson went before the board of public
works Friday morning and asked for an immediate in
vestgation of living costs in Seattle. He declared
t2t 5000 city employees must be given wage increases
to meet increased living costs, and said he would sign
an emergency ordinance bill approprating the neces
sary funds, if the council decided to take action
In his statement before the board of public works Hans
said: ~ =, ,-s--~tz-.ss ~
to investigate the of living the city Seattle AZ
the time the armstice signed all hoped and many
oil us believed that the cost of living would stop rising
and some of us thought it would decline
Instead OF that being the the cost of living in the
city OF Seattle has increased clothing food and
all other necessities except city light water and streetca
fare 1t thought that the members this board and
the city government should at once to decision
Just what this increased cost of living and then
grant to the employees of the city compensation their
daily ton commensurate to meet the increased cost of
necessities
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-27

The former cro~n prince was re.
ported 20 have escaped from his
place Of Intrrnmcni and tn have en-
tered Germany. sdviees received IN
Paris were that he was accompanied
BY a stair officer. He was lnterned
on the island of wierlnEen at the end
OF the war when he entered Holla nd
as a German army officer.
LONDON. Junr sT.--rTnIted Pre-sl
--Frt~derich Wilhelm. former Ger.
man crown prince. reported yester.
DAY 10 have escaped from Holland
into Germany. recently expressed 70
the Brussels correspondent OF The
Mirror hts plan OF living on his es
tates In Silesia after peace is signed
Fast Prussia aaa silesia viii new
err agree to Polish domination" the
former crown prince was quoted as
saying in this interview granted nj
his refuge on the island OF wjerin
gen
There Will be another war within
ten years Belgium. Serbia, Italy
Rumania and Greece win be furious
at the peace terms. only France
Britain and America will be salts
fled.
After peace is signed ! intend u
live on my estates IN Silesia- There
IL no truth In the reports that In
tend to starr pottery factory. The
kaiser win remain in Amerongen for
some time"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-27
Holland Issues a Statement
Saying Wilhelm Is Still on
Island OF Wieringen
WILLIE TALKS AGAIN

THE HAGUE. June .7.--The
Duteh government today offseial-
" announced that the former
crown prince Of Germany IL stiIi
ON the Island Of WierinEen.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-27
Watch

Saturdays paper FOR an
nouncement Of the winner
in the Want Ad Rhyme
Contest. Also for particu-
lars of next weeks contest.
Watch the Classified page.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-27
CITY TO INvESTICAT
COST OF LIVING HERE
Oh Boy! Look Who
Is Comm t Stay!

The Star has OBJ
taln@d Frcckles, tho
comic strip. for daily
publication. Freck.
les viii appear regu.
larry In The star.
beginning In a day
or 30.
Frccklcn Is n great
comic for kiddics and
grown ups Watch
for him and get &C.
quaintsd.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-27
FUNERAL or MRS. COLLINS

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary o
Collins, wife of Patrolman Lee II
Collins. who died "wednesday. will bs
held Saturday afternoon ~ ths
Georgetown undertaking parlOrs
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-27

The corporal in the tank was
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-27
WILSONMAY Deny CROWN
Save Beer PRINCE NOW.
and WINESN GERMANY
Enforcement Bills for Prohi-
bition Are Reported Out
by House Committee
PENALTY LESS SEVERE

WASHINGTON. June IL
Enforcement legislation for both
wartime and constitutional pro
hibssisn WIS formally rrportcd 10
the house in y bui of two sec
lions BY the house Judiciary com
nsitse~ today.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-27
TItt RSD sY
ts<E 81

I NJ 70
ftrst nigh Tide
te a. m ~ n
first lew Tide
10 ~ am 90 r.
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29
COAL. AND WHISKY

ALTHOUGH it was plain that Congress
~ found grim pleasure in passing the
prohibition enforcement bill over the
Presidents veto, it has not helped the
"dry" cause. 1t has invited pressure of
an extraordinary sort to force an early
ratification Of the peace treaty and the
formal abolition of restraints imposed
upon the liquor traffic by the wartime
dry" laws.
1t was Senator Borah who typified the
spirit that prevailed in the House and
Senate yesterday. The President, said
he, in a characteristic TRADE about the
prohibition veto, was inconsistent. He
complained because in relation to the
proposed coal strike the President ap-
pears to assume that war emergencies
still exist. while his veto implied that
where prohibition is in question the war
IS over.
There is a wide difference between coal
and whisky. Hysterical perversion of an
accepted principle of prohibition for the
sake of an additional month or two of
forced restraint is one thing. The crisis
that threatens the industrial life Of the
country is another. The war was over,
so far as any need for emergency prohi-
bition was concerned, when last summers
crops were harvested. War conditions
will continue to affect the business inter
ests of the country until peace is made
between employers and employees and
until trade routes are re-established upon
a revised basis.
Mr.. Borah knows all this. The actual
prohibition law, as it has been accepted
and approved by the State Legislatures,
is to be effective in January. 1t is con-
ceivable that the President foresaw the
complications that might easily arise if
money was spent in vast quantities and
elaborate machinery established to en-
force an emergency law after the emer-
gency has passed. The letter and spirit
of the wartime act require that prohibi-
tion be proclaimed temporarily at an end
when the treaty of peace is ratified, and
the Senate is in way to ratify the treaty
at an early date.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29
LoYALTYS LANGUAGE KEY

A KING of Spain, imported from Italy,
4 l once lost his throne, it is said.
through inability to pronounce the Span
ish a." The incident seems fantastic,
whimsical, yet in fact it touches the
heart of the naturalization problem.
A naturaized American who cannot
speak the English language is actually
an alien, in spite of his legal papers.
Fortunately, Congress is under no
Illusions concerning a prime factor in
turning out helpful and loyal citizens.
Its attitude on the subject is clearly ex-
pressed in the unanimous report to the
Senate of the bill stimulating the states
to adopt the compulsory teaching of
English both to illiterates and to the
great numbers of Americans unable to
read and write our language.
Appropriations for the purpose are to
be apportioned among those states which
provide at least 200 hours of English per
annum in their schools. Five million dol
lars is appropriated by the Bill for the
first fiscal year and $12,5OO,O0O annually
thereafter.
1t is needless to eXpatiate on the vir-
tues of such an enterprise. The liberia
tion by the language key of the 5000, 900
persons in the land who are unacquainted
with English will be a major security of
public spirit and intelligent patriotism.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29
WARE OF POLITICAL CROOKS

THE warning of Chairman Walton, of
= the Committee of One Hundred,
against subterranean attacks upon the
,councilmanic ticket nominated at the Re-
publican primaries is not sounded too
soon.
There is evidence of deals and dickers
to bring about the defeat of some of the
independent Republican nominees in
order that majority in the Council hos
tile to the new Mayor may be elected.
The Charter party is to be used for put
ting the deals across. In close districts
it may be able to muster votes enough to
defeat Moore candidate and change the
majority from one in favor of Moore to
one against him.
The men engineering the plan are ex-
pert political tricksters. They have sue
ceeded thus far in keeping themselves in
the background, though several men are
suspected. Their efforts can be frus-
trated if the voters in favor of a clean
administration in the City Hall go to the
polls next Tuesday and cast their ballots
as they cast them on the primary day.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

PATIENCE AND THE TARIFF

ALBA JOHNSON'S advocacy of u re
"A duced tariff is bit startling to
Philadelphians, who have excellent rea-
sons for ascribing much of the nations
prosperity to protective imposts. His
position, moreover is open to criticism
as premature.
Both free traders and high-tariff cham
pions are at present handicapped in for
mulating definite and authoritative poll
cies regarding customs duties. World
industries and world trade are in a state
of flux. After-the-war conditions have
not crystallized.
The whole problem not only demands
attention by political economists and
practical factors in industry, but the eX-
ercise of patience. Time will unravel the
tariff issues more convincingly than
efforts to interpret relationships which
are not yet stabilized.
The debate between protection and
free trade, absolute or modified, is end
less because the world refuses to stand
still
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

of Polynesia. They are under no obliga-
tion to apologize for provincial palate.
1t is their own and should as such be
needed. When we really want German
opera it will be restored and unseasoned
with eggs and catcalls.
Meanwhile, it is interesting to note
that German music uncontaminated with
Teutonic speech is being freely played
throughout the land. Even in this young
musical season Philadelphians have
already applauded Beethoven, Weber and
Wagner.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29
ORDER CONES FIRST

IN SUSPENDING Mayor Poorman, of
i Canton. the governor of Ohio acts
upon principle which takes precedence
over the merits in any controversy. The
preservation of public order is the first
function of government.
1t was not because steel-strike riots
were unsurpassed in Canton, but be-
cause any riots whatever We're permitted
TO imperil the city that its bungling
mayor was removed. The principle in
yolved is one distinctly appealing to the
&ation as whole in its present mood.
Disorder must go before anything can
be settled.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29
EvENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PH "

man TO enlist from his college those who
knew him were not at all surprised
They were kin with him and they under
stood what had been going on beneath
the surface of his mind, because 1T had
been going on beneath the surface OF
their minds as well.
The number of people who read books
because they are interested in literature
as such is infnitesimal wher con ~"d
with the number who read books because
they are interested in life. The small
coterie of faddists who discuss the rela-
tive merits of realistic and romantic.
fiction lives in an eddy Of the stream of
humanity moving from swaddling clothes
to the shroud. What its members say
and think is of great Importance to them
and to nobody else.
The general public buys books by
Harold Bell Wright and Gene Stratton-
Porter by the million, while they pass
Henry James by on the book stall. The
people who like James turn up their
noses at Wright and Mrs. Stratton
Porter, and the people who like these two
popular novelists would not use one of
the James books except to throw at the
cat. And these noveists are read in
spite of the fact that they have not writ
ten about the war, if not because of that
unique distinction.
Blasco Ibanez, who is already rivaling
them in popularity, commends himself to
the highbrows more than they. 1t is
merely because he happens to combine
wide knowledge and style Of great dis
tinction with an insight into the human
heart, that heart which speaks the only
universal language yet invented.
He disclosed his secret when he said
on his arrival in New York that he did
not intend to write an American novel;"
but that he would use America as a set
ting for story, which, put in other
words, means that he will not try to
create American characters, but that he
will write of common humanity, confident
that its appeal will be as broad as hu
manity itself.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29
The Basket of Memories

THIS is the market of live and learn,
L Here is the stall where t'..y sell the
spring.
And here is the stand where the memories
burn,
And what will you have? There is every
thing
Memories Of childhood in far away lands,
And dear little visions of old playmate
faces,
Comrades of youth holding hands in our
hands
This is the market of never again,
Bouquets and branches of beautiful joys
So fill up your basket, ye women and men,
With memories Of days Of the girls and
the boys!
Sell me, oh. sell me, dear keeper Of stalls
A lane in the country, rose by the gate,
The sweet honeysuckle all over the walls
And the rose by the path In it's regal
estate
Home, with the basket aswing on your arm,
Brimmed with the dreams of the days
that have been,
And roads running sweet by the village and
farm,
And down through the valleys and mead
ows of green!
Fill high the basket, the stalls are SO Anc
In life's dreamy market, and prices are
low
For all that they ask is smile, with its
wine,
And away with your basket piled high
you may go!
--Folger Mckinney, in the Baltimore Sun
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29
WE LIKE WHAT WE LIKE

IIAVING tried opera in German, both
II with and without riots, New York
now judicially bans it until after the
peace treaty is signed.
The court decision is based on popular
sentiment rather than logic, and perhaps
wisely so. Just why an enemy tongue
should be interdicted only when it is set
TO music would puzzle the philosopher,
especially that famous one who once
declared that what was too silly to be
said could be sung. The public, however,
is rightly the determining factor in such
a case
Americans have no liking for raw fish.
hieh Il The adored "piece De Resistance
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29
What Do You Knotp?

QUIZ
l. With what slogan did the French re-
pei the Germans at Verdun?,
2. Who killed Alexander Hamilton?
3. What is indigo?
4. How many Republicans voted against
the johnson amendment to the peace
treaty?
5. What was the original Polish form of
Chopin's name?
6. What was a tetrarch?
Z. In what war was the battle Of Plassey
fought and what were its results?
8. What is the fruit of the hawthorn
called?
8. Who is acting president Of Bryn Mawr
college?
10. How should the "c' in the name of the
Belgian national air, la Braban-
conne,' be pronounced?
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. The seven chief virtues are faith, hope,
charity, prudence, fortitude, chastity
and temperance.
2. A seascape is a picturesque view Of the
ocean or picture presenting a marine
view.
0. Kijuro Shidehara is the new Japanese
ambassador to the United States.
4. Senator Poindexter, of Washington, has
just announced his candidacy for the
presidency.
5. He belongs to the Republican party.
6. Winslow Homer was a noted American
painter Of marine subjects.
Z. Belgium's national debt was $149, ,000,-
600 in 1914. On the suggestion of
Herbert Hoover, her war debt was
Cancelled to the Allies.
8. A sizar is a student at Cambridge, Eng
land, or Trinity College, Dublin, pay
ing reduced fees and formerly charged
with certain menial Offices.
o. Karl Seitz is president Of Austria.
10. The German peace treaty is divided into
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

In the presence of the queen of Bel
GUM the wife of the mayor of Los Angeles
slapped the face of the State Department
representative who told her ''to get a hustle
on She evidently Obeyed orders.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

More interest might be taken in the
proceedings of the committee in Berlin which
is investigating responsibility for the war
if it were not for the present military op-
erations in the Baltic.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

In Labrador, an English explorer told
students at Hayerford College, one could buy
a fish as big as a man for five cents. and he
advised them to 90 there, Fish, they say.
makes brain. Did he mean?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

As wartime prohibition will come to an
end when the Senate ratifes the peace treaty ,
Senate deliberations will take on added in
terest in unexpected quarters.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29
That's Right!

II
That's Right! be. Mr. Box has ex-
tended the drive
for the PHILADELPHIA Orchestra until the re-
naming $500 600 is raised. Now everybody
spring to his side and that of his busy work
ers. For II month they have tolcd inces-
sanity. And now, tired but brave, they are
going TO toll on a week longer. A fresh zest
to them But let the public respond. These
toiling men and women have put aside every
duty and every pleasure to work for this
beautiful orchestra. They have not spared
themselves. They aud their object now
should be rewarded. The goal is in sight.
1t can easily be reached if every one will do
his or her part. Let us do it And save
the finest orchestra in America
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

Realty men who yesterday examined the
land adjoining the Philadelphia and Western
Railway are Of the opinion that Philly's
outskirts need a few more home frills.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29
A GREAT SPANISH NOVELIST AND
THE EFFECT OF WAR ON BOOKS
Why "Uncie Toms Cabin" Survives and
Other Novels Are Forgotten
in n Seaaon

A GROUP of intelligent men were
"A speculating the other day upon the
effect of the war ON the reading taste of
the public. Various opinions were ex-
pressed, but not one of the men volun-
teered any information about the effect
of the war on his own reading. They all
were thinking of that distant and imper
sonal thing known as "the general
reader"
And not one of the men attempted to
tell why people read at all If this can
be discovered we shall have an answer to
the question which publishers and
authors have been talking about for the
last three or four years.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

The Public Service Railway Co. is pri-
vately Of the opinion that the board that
recommends that they should return to n
zone plan should be called an inutility board.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

Syndicalists in Paris are planning
general strike. Happily, time has given
proof of the fact that the best laid schemes
of mice and men gang aft agley
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

Two New. York men have been sen
tenched to between four. years and eight years
Imprisonment for criminal anarchy" One.
at least, of the sentences is Pathological.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

If the Supreme Court approves the mu-
nicipal loan there will be So, ,250, 900 for
water. This will be joyful tidings for wagon
riders January J..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

The captains and the kings depart, bu
local politicians insist that old Genera
Apathy is still on the job.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

The enterprise and daring shown bv
fur thieves all point to the existence of an
organized gang. So far it has been per
mitted to gang its ain gait
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

Gasoline lamps are going to cost the
city. vi, 200 more next year than this. Old
I'll. G. comes heavy on the light.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

j.. Hampton Moore is going to have
harmony in the party if he has to 60 after
it with club.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

TN ITS effects upon the masses, the present
l. high cost of living is the most violent of
revolutionary stimulants, and Lenine's faith
in the value of the profteer as Bolshevk
propagandist is thoroughly justified This
probably explains the extraordinary paradox
that the strike tactics at present adopted by
the European labor leaders benefit the
profteering class far more than the working
classes, whose interests they are supposed
to protect. Higher wages obtained by
strikes furnish the profteer with the most
plausible excuse for demanding higher prices ;
and If prices diminish Socialist agitators
are deprived of their most effective propa-
ganda for promoting proletarian unrest
Thus the profteer and the labor agitator are
in reality working hand in hand though for
different ends. =, For the aim of the modern
disciple of Marx in continually contributing
to increase the cost of living by incessant
strikes Is, / am absolutely certain, to pre-
cipitate vast economic catastrophe through
out the entire world and to seize the dictator
ship in the hour of chaos.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

With the new rule Britons have put
into effect, it will have to be called the
House of Lords and Ladies.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-29

Clemenceau says the time has come when
he must take repose. The Tiger has def =
nitely decided on change of spots.