The Seattle star., August 16, 1915, Page 4, Image 4

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UNCLE SAM MODEL EMPLOYER
Till: employes of the United States government
railroad in don't have to bother about
taking out accident insurance policies. Uncle Sam
has insured them tree of charge. That is to say,
President Wilson, without waiting for specific act
of congress, and under the general authority of the
act providing for the construction of the govern
ment railroad in Alaska, has extended to employes
of the engineering commission in charge of the
work there the benefits of the accident compensa
tion act of congress which now apply to govern
ment employes in government manufacturing estab
lishments, arsenals, or navy yards, river and harbor
work, reclamation work, the forest service work,
the work of the bureau of mines, and on the
Panama canal.
If you are an employe of the Alaska govern
ment railroad work and you are injured in the
course of your work, Uncle Sam continues to p.tv
your regular salary just as if you were at work
for the period of one year. There are no questions
asked, no legal action required, no lawyer's fees;
nothing but an examination by the government
doctor and a certificate that you were accidentally
injured in the course of your employment, not due
to your own negligence or misconduct. Uncle Sam
does the rest. He pays your salary until you are
able to work again, or for a year if you are not able
to work before that time.
And if an employe is killed in the course of his
employment, or dies as the result of injury, his
widow or children under 16 years, or a dependent
parent, if he has one, is entitled to receive the
total amount of his wages for the period of a year.
Outbursts of Everett True
j A LITTLE BIT OF MOST ANYTHING
Down u/Jtfi ffi&cfftiiey-
—pipes a chorus, loud and strong
And who are the chorus girls who
*lng this little song? Oh say, don't
you know them? You have often
heard them sing: they are with us
every summer, every fall, and every
spring. Miss Special Privilege Is
singing solo parts, and Franchise
Monopoly Is trying for our hearts.
Along toward the center there are
Misses Crab and Pinch, and the
hlgh-klcklng alto girl Is Mlhs Gotta
Cinch. Mis* Take la out of tune, so
Is Mlsa Represent, and Mies Phoney
Business leans on Mlsm Manage
ment. Miss Orafta Heapadough will
Join the troupe next fall, as well as
Miss Appropriate and Miss Lotta
Oall. Street, Car and Company are
putting on the show, and Mr. Trol
ley Kingdom *ays he's gotta make
It go. I heard Mr. Straphanger,
whose first name I've forgotten,
whisper to his helpmeet, "Hay, thla
show Is pretty rotten!" From the
talk In the audience, I'd like to bet
rny socks that "The Gay Jitney.
Busters" abow is beaded for the
rocks.
• • •
• HOOTING SIMULTANEOUSLY
Uncle Ben, a very careful old
darkey, wat a witness In a
•hooting case.
"Were the shots simulta
neous, uncle?" Inquired the
SPINNING'S QUITTING SALE
IS ON IN FULL BLAST
All KtmU of Hmtrty Hmmr Hladfa Kharprßrd. Ifto mis.
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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE SEATTLE STAR
prosecuting attorney.
"Well, boee. you see, hit wut
die way," replied the witness,
with great deliberation. "Dem
shots come so close togedder
dat I caln't be aho' ef dey wut
er not."—Judge.
• • •
OVERPOWERING
Eliza —Eph', la yo' goin' ter Jet
dat mule do de way ho pleases?
Wliar's yo' will power?
Eph'—Mah will power's all right.
Yo' Jtat come heah an' measure dla
yer mule's won't power!— Judge.
• * •
WOULDN'T DO
The football player walked the
floor,
His Infant yelling mom anil more.
Hi hoped lilh captain wouldn't
There was no reason except humanity which
compelled the secretary of the interior and Pres
ident Wilson to extend this act to the Alaskan em
ployes. Congress did not direct it. But Uncle Sam
is a little different from the private employer-
He is not running his business for PRr)FIT,
but for SERVICE.
He is going to province a government railroad
at THE COST OF PRODUC7I lON—neither more
nor less. Whatever it costs to build that railroad,
he will pay, and he regards the accidents which
will occur in work of this kind as a PART OF THE
COST, which the public, and not the unfortunate
employe, ought to pay.
The public is to use and own the road; and if
men are to be called upon to give their limbs, and
possibly their lives, in its construction, the public
must pay them or their widows or dependents.
The compensation is small, it is true, but it is
infinitely better than nothing, and Uncle Sam is
setting the right kind of a pace.
THE STAR strongly favors a county farm became
it is a sound idea from an economic as wet! as humani
tarian standpoint. The Star, however, is playing no
favorites and is not recommending one farm as against
another. The Star does not urge the Stimson farm as
against other farm equally as good, or better. The
county commissioners should consider all available farms
carefully and make the bent purchase possible.
I)R. J. W. SLAUGHTER of I.ondon is one of the co
worker* for single lax with Mr*. Felt, who visited Seattle.
Seems like Kitchener overlooked a bet. Could have sent
Slaughter into camp of enemy.
WHENEVER YOU see an overgrown hoy still
dressed up like a baby doll, it's a safe bet it's the father
of the house whose breath frequently comes in short pants.
A Married Man's Troubles
DUSTY DAVE'S LUCK-(OR, A DASH FOR FAME!)—A MOVIE IN 3 PARTS—PART 111.
Stella and Gertie
call.
For he simply couldn't control
the bawl!
• • •
AT THE DANCE
flhe—Have rou learned any new
step*. Mr. Bumpus?
He—No, but I've stepped on a
lot of new feet!
• • •
FROM VAUDEVILLE
(Ed and Jack Binlth)
"Wan that homely woman I saw
you talking to this afternoon your
wife?"
"She mny be homely on the out
ildn, but she In beautiful within."
"Then why don't you have her
turned Imlde out?"
"I don't know what I'd do If I
didn't have my wife."
hate to go to work."
"My wife picks all my clothe*,"
"That's nothing. My wife pick*
all my pocket*."
"My wife 111*0 selecta all my
■blrt* and collar*."
"How long do you we*r a *hlrt?"
"One week How long do you
wear a *hlrt?"
"Thirty-six Inches."
"I>oea your wife ever talk to her
*elf when alone?"
"I don't know. I never am with
her when *he la alone."
WHADDAYAMEAN! -
(From the Qulnry Whlgi
Notice —I will not he responsible
for any debts contracted toy my wife
(Mrs. Nellie Hedges) on or after
this date
(Signed) W. B. Hedges.
Notice — Mrs. Nellie Hedges
doesn't understand an advertise
mcnt appearing In the Sunday Whig
Mr Hedges does not now and
never has paid any of Mrs. Hedges'
bills.
* STAR-MONDAY, AUGUST 16. 1915. PAGE 4,
SQUIRML rooo — BY AHIRW
"DREAM DOPE"
WHY HOT WATER MAKES THE
DIRT FLY
EDITOR STAR - I'd Ilk* to aik why hot water It battrr to
clean away dirt than cold watar? ELLA Q.
If you have had much to do with fighting
dirt you know that the chief cause of dirt is oil or
fat which makes grease, and grease, whether it's
on our clothes, or hands or on the dinner dishes,
simply catches all the dust that's going. Now, oil is
liquid fat. Heat changes most solid things into
liquid, it changes the solid or half solid fat into oil,
and oil, of course, runs off our hands, or the dishes,
or out of our clothes just the same as water would.
Cold water would not change 'the fat into liquid;
that's why it isn't as good as hot water to clean
away certain dirt.
If there's no fat or oil in the dirt it matters
very little whether the water used to clean it away
is cold or hot.
WHEN THE SHEPHERDS FIGHT
BE "AUSE of an invitation to Rev. Hilly Sunday,
Rev. Aked, formerly Rockefeller's New York
pastor, resigns from Frisco's Committee of One
Hundred, saying that there's no such heaven or
hell as Hilly preaches.
It's the same old, old trouble! Just as us
miserable, sinful sheep begin to think that we're
being led in the right path to salvation, along comes
a fight among the shepherds, and we get all mixed
up as to which are the ways to heaven and which
those to hell.
Can't they agree on a happy medium between
Rev. Aked's respectable sort of a hell and Rev. Sun
day's disreputable pit of roaring brimstone?
"When You're Well, Keep Well"
Amtber article la The Star's health campaign being cnlmM
with co-oprratlea ol American Mcdlcal Association
Effect of Batha on Human Svatem
Frequent bathing la an essential 1
If the akin I* to have proper oppor-
I
tunity to carry off
waste material
and act readily.
Baths also have
I Important effect
on the hutnan sva- 1
torn and health. 1
There are
three kind* of
bath* suitable
u«ini luiiauit
for the majority of people. The
tepid oi'luke-warm bath l« from
80 to 90 degreee Fahrenheit.
Thla haa no apeclal effect apart
from cleanalng. It la aultable
for Invallda. the elderly, the
convaleacent and thoae who do
not re-act well to cold water.
It may be taken at any time
of the day, but la preferable
Juat before bedtime.
The warm bath, which ta
clally good for Infanta, la from 90
to 100 degrees Fahrenheit. When
taken by mlnlta Juat before retiring
It prevents sleeplessness.
The warm bath la also excellent
as u means of relieving soreness
after aevern muscular exercise. It
should not he taken until two or
three houra after a meal, aa It
drawa blood away from the atom
ac.h and Is apt to cause digestive
disturbances.
The third type Is the hot hath,
which ia taken when the water ta
"NOBODY HOME"
WHOEVI-K started the boomlet for George A.
I ce tor governor must be endowed with a
big bump of humor. (>r else, if it was started se
riously, it's a case of "nobody home."
George A. Lee as governor' it's the biggest
political joke for some time.
In various capacities, Lee, both as a public
official and as a hired corporation lobbyist, has
slipped many a joker into the laws of this state,
and now somebody is kidding him into the belief
he can be slipped over, too.
It really can't he done, George. It's one thing
to be a pood lobbyist and influence votes of a
bunch of corporation-fed members of the legislature.
It's another thing to get the votes of the people who
have been so often victimized by Lee "jokers." It
would be about as easy for a celluloid rat to escape
an asbestos cat in.the infernal regions.
THE UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE esti
mate* that HOO million feet of timber be cut in the
national forests of Alaska each year, without lessening
their productivity. In other words, there's 800 million
feet new growth each year, which is, at present, worth
on the stump, approximately, $ 1,360,000, or almost 20 per
cent on the purchase price of all Alaska.
THERE ARE now hut three states without com
pulsory education lavv^: Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi.
Here's hoping they will swing into line at an early date.
SOME OF the ocean liner- must have been taking
a course of training. A number of them are outrunning
and outdodging the German submarines pretty regularly.
QUESTION: ARE 3.000 iron crosses on German
soldiers worth a million and a half iron crosses on six
foot strips of earth?
from 105 to 110 degrees. It should
not tie Indulged In except by the
strong, as It has a depressing effect
on the circulation. It should only
bo used at night, or when the
bather Is to stay In a warm atmos
phere. It should NOT HE TAKEN
AFTER MEAI«S.
• • •
Buttermilk It one of the best
summer drinks. It ahould not
be taken too cold or too fast.
It Is a fat producer and Is more
easily digested than sweet milk.
1 X Purity Guaranteed aL—*
9 m Under ail State and National
Food Laws. You can pay
V higher price, but you cannot getH
M a baking powder that will
A nicer, lighter cakes and! jSES®
that is any morel
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2 please you. Try a can at our risk.
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' By Allman
BY BLOSSER.
MYRON T. HERRICK
TO SPEAK HERE TN
Kx President Taft and Myroa T.
Herrlck, former governor of Obift
and former ambassador to Frane*
will be chief shaker*, Jt 1» «•
nounced, at the annual conTentioD
of the American Hankers' assocta
tlon. which will meet here *t tbi
same time as the 20th annual con
ventlon of the Washington Bank 1
ers' association. September 6.
IN THESE WARLIKE DAY#
"Now, Johnny, what Is a m»B ol
war?"
"A cruiser."
"What makes It go?"
"Its screw, sir."
"Who go with It?"
"It* crew, air."
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