The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-09-19
Steel WORKERS issue LABOR challenge
Young Col. Teddy Tells
of Heroism of Doughboy

had done IL. but l would start an
Investigation right away. Ito In.
sisted that I make the investigation
personally. First would como with
him 10 Mndame Bcauchoau's and
count the rabbits.
II said that as youth. ! had
raised rabbits myself In America.
and that counting them one morning
waa no criterion OF how many there
would be left next morning. cits
these instances 90 show you what
the average service man went thru
outside Of tho trenchea.
''fn the trenches II was different
We had n company clerk named
Fonncssy. "A kid Of 20. who found out
his duties lay at the rear. ana asked
TO be transferred 10 the front 30
We made him n corporal and an.
signed him In charge Of an auto
matte gun at the head Of gulch in
a particularly bad patch OF woods.
lie went up with his gun. The
Huns put down n heavy strrfing.
They got Fcnnessy. They got his
rifle, They shot off his arm and
shot out bis right side. on his way
to the rear no asked TO seo the
commanding officer.
Tells Of Hero
-'air,' he said. tho automatic rife
at the head Of the gtfch has been
put out OF business. Tho command.
ing officer knows what AN import.
ant position that Is. and another gun
should be sent up Immediately
'Repiaocments were coming up.
One day bunch OF about 30 came
along The officer in command said
they were men who had never fired
rifle In their lives. An right
said, they're going TO the best riffs
range In the world. Send them up"
AZ this point in tho speech. an
over-eaxer spectator fell off his
chair. Casualty In rear Of room"
remarked Cot Roosevelt quickly.
and the crowd laughed.
we had lad named coliinsky.
Hts leg was shot off lie didn't blced
TO death right away. but was prop.
ped up at the end OF the trench. His
lieutenant came by.
Well. lieutenant aid collinsky.
smiling. you've lost he'll OF q good
soldier
That shows what the average
man did In the trenches. what he
saw and how he took IL
We were going into the show at
Solssons. Capt Douglas was there
In the same show. lie had a first
row scat believe. We were going
forward after the Hun. who was on
the other side OF a hill. AL At once
two piaioons 10 tho left OF our line
opened fire.
Ny gracioun- said their ieu,en.
ant 10 mo. I didn't know the enemy
was no near And th~n we saw what
tho trouble was. A rabbit had got
up and was running ahead OF our
troops. and two whole platoons were
shooting at II.
Towards the end Of IN. war--we
had been fighting for three dayp
without rest---an old sergran, named
o'Rourks came by ms. Well I said.
how goes itr
oh. air. he said. II had known
the Germans had such legs never
would have come. They're running
40 fast III never catch up with EN-.
And no the service man has come
out Of the war upset. bu, q better
man, with, bigger patriotism and
higher ideals. but mcss,d UP n Bit
Danger Ia Told
i had letter from father while
] WAS In the trenches. II read: Dear
Ted; There N danger In this coun.
try that we may be driven by fool
radicals into what Russia has been
driven Into--Bolshevlsm.'
There's the dsnger-that the
people will be carried away by the
'isfns' Of untricd variety. We must
have In this country and In every
city. county and state. this kind of
man-thc man with the determine.
ton, first OF all. to rigidiy enforce
law and order.
1T Is equally important that We be
determined 20 move forward on a
program Of sane. constructive iiber.
allsrn--not Of half baked ideas, but OF
well-thought-out liberalism There
are two types OF liberalism. the type
that Is iesislatod In and the type that
ls educated In.
The legislative type IL typiflcd by
our Industrial insurance laws and
other Industrial legislation that you
folks here In the West have already
enacted.
The educatIve type In typif1ed by
such things as profit-sharing.
John ID Ryan nresidant ~ tha
copper company in Butte. has one
kind Of profiteharing plan. He
must deal with a class OF labor that
is transient sovhe has agreed with
his men on sliding scale OF wages.
depending on the price of copper.
That's one kind OF proflt.sharlns.
Mr.. Proctor, who makes Ivory
soap In Cincinnati. has another kind
OF profit-sharing plan. Mr.. Proctor
has an agreement whereby his EN-.
ployes can acquire stock In tho com.
pany. He can do this. because his
class OF labor In a class that stays
there and builds homo there and
raises It's children there.
why do l believe In profit-shar>
ingf Because the strongest argu-
ment with human beings is the argu-
ment OF the pay envelope. We have
some very dangerous fallacies going
thru our country now which the
profit-sharing plan Will abolish.
THE business man In learning that
with the profit.sharing plan, and ev.
cry employe his partner, he viii get
more profit himself, 40 that Won have