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EDITORIAL PAGE THE TACOMA TIMES
Labor Will Plan Way to End War, Preventing Exacting of Ruinous Tribute
American labor is going to act on the world's war.
What, if anything, cau be done to end it and prevent a recurrence of such a conflict in the future
will be debated at the forthcoming convention of the American Federation to be held in San Fran
cisco for two weeks, beginning next Monday.
A year ago, at the Philadelphia convention, a resolution was adopted Instructing the executive
officials to communicate with the unions in the belligerent and neutral countries of Europe and
suggest the advisability of calling a world's labor congress to meet, at the conclusion of the war, in
the same city in which peace terms are to be negotiated and to remain* in permanent session until
negotiations are concluded.
The plan contemplates the exercise of pressure upon the diplomats by the labor congress
to prevent the victors from exacting ruinous tribute from the vanquished countries and thus
perpetuate nationalistic hatreds and animosities for generations to come.
The Confederation of Labor in Frantic, the German Federation of Trade Unions, the British La
bor Congress, the Labor Federation in Italy and similar bodies in other countries have, through
conventions or their executive officials, agreed in the main with the American plan and supple
mented the same by formulating programs which, in nearly each instance, provide—
Against annexation of territory, against payment of indemnity, gradual reduction of anna
INTOLERABLE BLUFFERS
From an unknown orphan to the most fathered and
mothered child in history, fate promoted "John Doe, No.
104," over night.
There are now between 200 and 300 parents anxious to
prove their relationship to the new little Finley J. Shephard,
who is some day likely to inherit a considerable fraction of
the Gould millions.
Think once, and these claims seem like extraordinary
cupidity.
Think twice, and they appear to be plain common human
stupidity. The Shephaards spent $50,000 preparing before
hand for the individuals who would try "to put something
over" them.
Human pretense is mostly stupidity. Crime is that. Vico
is that. Disease is that. Poverty is social stupidity. War is
national stupidity.
The extreme or heroic varieties are uncommon and to be
endured but persons of average sanity find nothing on earth
so disgusting as affectation, pretense and bluff like that of
the two or three hundred "parents" of little Finley J,
OLD MALTHUS' WARNING
Old Matlhus warned us it would happen. We were bound
to have war whether Nietzsche had lived or not.
A professor speaking about race suicide in a New York
courtroom has jogged our memory.
Old Malthus lived a hundred years ago. He said that the
population of a country would double itself in 25 years unless
kept down by famine, disease, or war. Like a river it would
burst its harriers in the easiest place and if the flood couldn't
spread in one direction it would seek another.
We always thought old Malthus a horrid pessimist. Cut
in his worst mood he could never have imagined anything so
terrible as the populations of Europe fighting today to Con
ine each other within their home boundaries.
We can never think lightly of Malthus again.
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WFORMArJM i
HOTEL KEEPER—Why notj
advertise—"None of discomforts j
of horns" instead of "all comforts
of horns (or ten dolla a weak?"
• • •
OORA—No. All leddy who tly
lag to fltnd out how other half
Urss not looking for divlorce—
maybeso doing settlement work.
• • •
Heard on a street car down
town yesterday afternoon: "She's
fond of art." "How do you
knew?" "I can see It In—ar—sr
•—I mean on her face."
• • •
It Isn't odd that embezzlements
are nearly always committed by
"trusted clerks." The ones who
sxs not trusted seldom gtt a
whack at the coin.
■ • •
LKT THIS GO DOUBLE
Reporter—What do you meen
pj ssylng 1 use too many para
doclsal expressions?
City Editor —I mean that you
say Impossible things. This story,
for Instance, contains the phrase
"bag pipe music." —Answers.
• • •
Justice Hughes of the United
States supreme court is a very
««Ut sort of man and isn't cred
ited by his friends with having a
Wry keen sense of humor.
At s recent legal gathering la
sany Justice Hughes told this
x\- jmn aa>4 3se was sitting In
tfAmfanx.aamaat Balers pronounc
■ssjfV . Agp. culprit he
"*1 used to teach your daughter
ftnam laaatam" said the guilty
Tivesty years!" thundersd the
raigned In a Chicago court tho
other day for pilfering hi 3 neigh
bor's beehives.
FREE TRADE,
ONE OF THE
GREATEST
BLESSINGS
WHICH A
GOVERNMENT
CAN CONFER
ON A PEOPLE,
IS IN ALMOST
EVERY
COUNTRY
UNPOPULAR.
QUESTIONS THEY WRITE TO I -—*—.—«-
CYNTHIA GREY--HER ANSWERS r^rtU^w
Dear Miss Orey: I have stood thin suspense as long as I
can, so am going to try to break Into this newspaper notoriety
by settling for sure that controversy about the service in the
army and navy, and I feel sure that Orphan Boy will no longer
remain in doubt, for there has been so much said by women
who know nothing about the question aside from the dress pa
rade feature, that it seems he would enjoy a breeze from one
who was a sure enough soldier down in the "Full-'o-Prune
Islands." Those were real times! And I want to relate some
of the attractions along the route, so he can see the Romantic-
Ism of the service.
It would take several Installments to tell all I know, and
there are several chapters that would not be printable. How
ever, I am going to be impartial and tell both sides of the story
so you may inspect the layout from both angles.
Of course, the service Is very prosaic in tlmss of peace,
but when a crisis is on, and the girls go entirely daffy over any
old guy in a uniform, you will stand a .chance of being slob
bered over, fondles and heroized until you get bloated up enough
to see how important you have been right along, even though
you thought you were a too Infinitismal when you used to be
beating It about the country begging for a Job in the country
you are now going out to fight for. Ton will make a good
soldier If you have been totting aroflbd a roll on your back.
If you have been a blanket stiff you will feel right at home.
Now to begin with I had the "distinction" of being in tho
first expedition of American soldiers to ever leave our shores.
We were regaled by the plutocrats of Honolulu, where we par
took of an $8,000 banquet served under the palms and mango
trees on Queen Lllleukalani's palace grounds; saw real live hula
hula girls. Man alive! That town was ours; it was the life!
I was sentry at the gang plank of our transport, when a
wagon load of pineapples, oranges, etc., were taken on board,
heard the lady who gave them instruct the officer of the guard
that they were for distribution among the man when a few days
out at sea. The only time we ever saw any of that fruit was
when we looked down through the skylight from the hurricane
deck and saw it on the officers' tables. A few of the boys pur
loined some apples from s refrigerator (Intended for the offi
cers! and got relieved of a month's pay for their vandalism.
Westward ho! and we hove to at the Ladrone Islands,
where we watched the Charleston bombard Fort San Louis de
Apra. And here one of our boys croaked and we tied s plum
met to him snd chucked him into the briny depths. A monu
ment is now erected, not where we put him over, but where
people can read how he died with his hoots on.
I p«n arriving In the mysterious Orient, we were the first
regiment to bounce upon dry land where Spain had held forth
for several centuries. Then the real life began. We were first
to enter the grim walls of the ancient capital at its capitulation,
and It was my regiment that hauled down the Spanish lion and
hoisted in Its stead the ensign of the American Eagle Subse
quent events gave us the opportunity to kill aome Filipinos, thus
gratifying the blood lust Lred Into us In school and church.
We were to have received fruit once a day on the voyage.
We were 36 days en route, and were Issued fruit for one meal.
only, during the entire voyage; but when we Winded in Cavlte,
and unloaded the transports, the commissary was stacked to
the celling with all kinds of canned fruits, and Jams, etc., each
case stenciled across the box, "Use on the voyage." ' We ex
pected to get It Issued then, after having worked hard unload
ing it, hut, alas, if we got a smell we paid for it out of our muni
ficent 1(15.60 per month, at from 10 to 26 cents per can. I
wonder If there Was ever sny accounting to Uncle Bam for tho
cash received?
We returned by way of .Ispan, passing en route the Island
of Formosa, and landed at Nagisakl, Japan, where we took rlch
shaw tides, saw the Garygoyte gods In their shrines at tho
temples of worship, got glpped on ail sides by the sffable Japs,
and finally returned to Frisco to receive the plaudits of tho
populace, who create! an uproar that made Agutnaldo's defense
of Malabon sound like a Fourth of July celebration. Amid
the crash and dm of It. all the gills charged in squads snd
platoons to capture reeJ heroes. They purloined the brass but
tons from our battle scarred uuiiorsss. until we hadn't enough
braas to make a good front when the officers stepped by.
TBS TACOMA TIMES
ment, freedom of the seas, universal franchise, and other measures calculated to prevent wars.
The idea that underlies this general-program is that of impressing the ruling powers in the vari
ous countries that labor the world over will struggle against the old, barbarous custom of conquer
ors to levy tribute upon the weaker nations, and thus to bring the fact home to the statesmen and
diplomats that the struggle is being needlessly prolonged and-that they are likely to encounter trou
ble at hoiile if they are determined to plunder their neighbors.
The workers of Europe are looking to America to initiate the next step to hasten the end of the
conflict, and it is probable that the convention, will choose delegates to proceed to Europe when the
war closes to assist in putting into effect the plan as outlined.
There are some who believe an immediate effort should be made to revive the International Fed
eration of Trade Unions, with which body upwards of 14,000,000 organized workers were affiliated
and the headquarters of which federation were located in Berlin.
Such a move would entail the calling of an international conference to assemble in some accessi
ble neutral country. Whether the time has arrived when the labor forces in the belligerent nations
would officially participate in such a congress will have to be determined through correspondence.
Generally speaking, organized labor of America, in having the good will of the workers in all
countries, occupies a highly strategic position and may be immensely helpful in paving the way to
write finis to the world's greatest tragedy.
OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE
J |N THIS PICTURE THE JANITOR
OWNS THe BUILDING-.
j IN THIS PICTURC THe JANITOR j
NO LONGER OU/NS THE BUILDING.
The volume of my correspondence has grown so rapidly In
the last few months that a further systematizing of my work Is
necessary.
For that reason I shall receive office callers hereafter only
on Wednesdays, between 11 a. m. and 4p. m. These hours I will
keep open for visitors to the office, with the hope that many of
my friends will come to me in person with their questions, but on
other days 1 shall have to limit my services to replying by mail.
CYNTHIA GREY.
Then consider the voluminous outpourings of newspaper
cheap notoriety we received, and how the dear girls went batty
over us? Wasn't that worth while?
But the greatest consideration of all was what we got for
our services. The remuneration was $1560 per month In-per
fectly good money, that any saloon or other dive would accept
from men who couldn't buy batter entertainment. Again, we
got our clothes, and three feeds a day, which were servsd by
bugle call, while if you remain a land lubber and follow the
peaceful pursuits of a civilized man, the chances are that you
will be getting your grub by police call before the winter Is
oTsr.
That's not all: I have a most "elaborate" msdsl oast from
an antlsue bronze cannon that was placed on the ramparts of
the ancient fortress during the reign of Carlos the IV. The In
scription on the medal reads, "For gallant service In the Phll-
Hplne Islands." Get that? Maybe you could get yourself one
If you succeed in killing a lot of men. Also I have a scrap of
paper which says that I ha-e been "honorably discharged" al
though the captain tried to fasten upon me responsibility for a
letter written home that exposed his crookedness, and would
have been counmartlaled If he had succeeded.
You can readily see the advantages that accrue from all
these things. If ever I get on the ragged edge of necessity, I
am going to work that document for board and lodging. No
good Christian will turn a tramp from the door who is loaded
up with such credentials, and such a record of achievements
to his credit. A SPANISH WAR VETERAN.
Q. —What were the first three newspapers ever printed In
America? Please answer as soon au possible. A READER.
A-—T,»c history of the printing of newspapers in America prop
erly begins on 'Hi Sept.. HMK>, for it was upon that dato that Richard
fierce <»f Ifewton Issued the first numlier of what was to have been
a perioiUcal publication. Strange as It may seem, however the first
American Journalist was rmlmved with a sense of originality of which
ever the makers of the modern sensations! newspa|s?r might find rea
son to lie proud, for, in his salutory, 1,., stated that as there were
many false rumors being circulated in the town of Boston which were
• «iimhiii|< doing a great deal of harm, he requested his renders to
furnish him with a list of those person* who were starting such
stories that lie might advertise them In the succeeding Issues of hlsi
pa|»er. In other words, his plan was to print a regular weekly list of I
all the liars In town, a scheme which would certainly have sold many i
copies of the sheet had not the authorities put an end to the project
by promptly suppressing Hie newspaper. This Journal was to hay
borne the name of "Public Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestic."
As only one Issue of this strange newspa|ter appeared, the his
torians of Journalism have usually failed to mention It, but' In
stead, have given the credit for Hie publication of the first peri
odical to John Campbell, a Scotchman, and the postmaster at Bos
ton, who Issued the first number of "The Boston New*-I*»Uer," on
the 24th of April. 1704.
For mora than 10 years Campbell had the Journalistic field en
tirely to hiinMlf, but. In the latter part ot 1719 another paper, called
MTbe Gasette," was started in Boston, and in 1721 a third was estab
lished by James Franklin, under the name of "The New England
Current."
Q. —I am planning a winter window tardea. Kindly name
somo plants which will prove a success? HBLENE.
A—Among Mi* liest plants for Mils purpose arti the begonia,
syiiususn, sjnSMMlium, easUs. tfeaat prtwiroae, fmwMa, rolens, agera
tum, calls, asttaragus plumosus, ground |»y, heliotrope, abutllon and
candy tuft.
TUTTIFRUTTI FASHIONS
The bustle of the '80s, the Wattcau panier, the pantalet
of the 60s, and the costume of Chinese women are the last
word in fashion, according to authority.
And we have heard our wife say that the hoop skirt
threatens, that army styles prevail, that the Russian smock
has arrived, that the hour-glass "princesse" is the thing, that
Marie Aintoinette furbelows are here, that Carmen's scarf
and Napoleon's trieone and polonaise are upon us, and that
woman is in for Mrs. McChcsney's petticoat, "the Balloon
Petticoat, It Billows."
Our clever little wife usually designs her own dresses
combining choice features from different fashion plates!
We feel it our paiuful duty, this season, to discourage
her.
JUST KEEP AFTER CONGRESSMEN
We'll have those reports of the U. S. Commission on In
dustrial Relations off the press yet. The letters which we
urged the people of Tacoma to send to their congressmen are
bringing results.
In a reply from Royal Meeker, IT. S. commissioner of
labor statistics, Charles L. Allen, 209 South 11th street, is
told that while the meager 10,000 copies which were pub
lished have all been used up, there may be more coming from
the next congress if we keep after those congressmen hard
enough.
So write to Albert Johnson, demanding he vote that way.
LET PACIFIC COAST HAVE ACADEMIES, TOO
The suggestion for new government military and naval
academies on the Pacific coast is prompted by good sense and
an understanding of the necessities.
The Pacific coast is the exposed part of our country.
Making war in this region would differ radically from opera
tions in eastern or middle western parts, just as war in the
Russian swamps differs from war in the Alps or Caucasions.
If there is any cirtue in actual drill and practice, stuffing the
West Point and Annapolis academies and neglecting the vast
territory west of the Mississippi will be a mistake.
ALUMNI TO GIVE
'MIDNIGHT REVUE'
NOVEMBER 25TH
Alumni of Tacoma high schools
are gradually working the annual
musical production, "Midnight
Revue," which will be given Nov.
25, into presentable form- The
Play was written by Clinton Jones,
who produced the success of last
year.
Michael J. linoh v will act as
director. Nearly 100 former high
school students are trying out lor
the several casts which will make
up the show.
BUSY EVENINGS
IN L. H. S. GYM
Water polo, wrestling and
basket-ball are all going full blast
at Lincoln Park in the evening!
gymnasium classes. Director
Moser bus a squad of 60 men try
ing for basket-ball teams.
Water polo Is played nightly.
It is the Intention of Coach Phil
lips to form several teams and
obtain outside games, possibly
with the Y. M. C. A. Several ex
pert players have demonstrated
their ability in the tank.
LECTURE AT C. P. S.
Mrs. Martelle E. Davis, profes
sor of modern languages, will
give the third of a series of talks
In the College of Puget Sound
chapsl Wednesday evening at 8
o'clock. She will speak on "Edu
cation In India."
WOULDN'T FAIL
AUDIENCE; DIES
CLEVELAND, 0., Nov. I—Re
fusal to disappoint an audience
caused the death of Blanche
Walsh, the actress, in a hospt'al
here yesterday.
After an Illness which requir
ed an operation she insisted on
keeping an engagement at
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• DEATHS
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Iveret Iverson. age It, at a lo
cal hospital Saturd.iyulght; t;eo.
Piper in charge.
Mrs. Sarah Rankin, 1611! So,
M St.; last night at a local taorr.l
-tal; funeral this evening at 7
p. m. from the residence ncder
direction of Buck lev-King: body
will be shipped tomorrow mora*
ing to Oswego. Ore.
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