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EDITORIAL PAGE—Let the Truth Prevail!
U. S. IDEALS: Busyness, Not Business; Square Deal, Both Ways
When some of the peoples of Europe claim that we Americans have no ideals or we would not sell
war supplies to the belligerents; when thousands of persons in the United States believe that we lack
Ideals because we do not take one or the other side i n the conflict; when one-third of our population
complain* that the other two-thirds completely mis ses the spirit of the founders of this republic—then
Jt is comforting to find someone ready to define our ideals for us.
This lias just been done by Clayton Sedgwiek C ooper in his now book, "Amerioan Ideals," pub
lished by Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y. A few quotations taken from different chapters
with the publishers' permission indicate the nature of the book and furnish the sensitive with an ad
mirable defense against carpers. "The citizen of the United States is by nature and training a busi
ness man, and busihess to him spells BUSYNESB,' J says the author.
"Many a man will tell you that he has never at opped working long enough to formulate his ideals."
Nevertheless, "the American is by no means the blind and benighted hustler he is so frequently painted
by the transient stranger; he haß, as a rule, a metho d in the madness of his plunging, importunate life."
That this nation is money mad, Cooper does no t believe "Of no people on earth is the reputation of
.worshiping gold PER SE further from the fact than the Americans. * * * * Money is tho hand
•f America's achievement. •••• It is not head nor her heart, but it is one of the mighty means
toward her individual and national strength. Americans are idealists engaged in a practical task, and
wealth is one of the rungs in the ladder by which th ey mount."
And it is the American's ideal to climb to success honorably. In business, by "the square deal
H
Does Being: "Placed" Mean "Staying Put?"
A boy Who asks for a job at the New York public library employment bureau has his troubles.
The placement clerk provide* him with a vocational guidance application blank containing 86
questions. "Docs your mind concentrate or skip around?" is one of them.
Our mind has both concentrated and skipped around this and the other 85 questions, but it invaria
bly circles back here:
Js it better for a boy to be "placed" in a job some expert thinks he will fit!
Or—is it better for him to make his own place in the world?
"] 'd hate to see any young fellow do all the things I've done, make all the mistakes I've made " says
J. Leonard Replogle, $15,000,000 steel magnate, who went to work for $3.60 a week whon he was 12
years old.
But it's 50 to 50 that if J. Keplogle had been "placed " in his youth according to vocational guid
ance rules, he would not be explaining his phenomenal financial career today.
There's a fatality about accepting other people's judgment of what is good for us. It robs us of
our power to judge for ourselves.
There's a fatality about being "placed" by somebody else. It inclines a body to "stay put."
Of Such Is the Kingdom
We have grown so accustomed to the horror fraught tales of the battle frontj to stories of personal
Talor and of stirring heroic deeds, that we are prone to let pass unnoticed thelittlo everyday incidents
at home that are filled with pathos and which breathe the spirit of simple self sacrifice. Hero is one
worth recording, sweet and pure and -wholesome, a tale of two children
In Klamath Falls, Ore., a little girl, Frieda Sehiesel, was very ill.' To save her life some rabbit
terum was needed at once. Isext door to Frieda lived littlo Leonard Ford. Plavinates were they. The
joy and pride of Leonard's life were his pet bunnies. He had raised them and fed them and cared for
Bi7i!E/Ti«/ T her, babtr- °f courße ' they *«I>e a Part, a very large part, of Leonard's young life.
But just as manfully and with the same spirit which prompts the soldier in the trenches to give his all
for duty s sake, the little lad offered his pets that the much-needed serum might be had. With quivering
tops and sorrowing heart he watched the physician slay them
LJFS ';! )erati°n i Wa? suwess 1 fnl; *; iT (la's llfe was saved, 'isn't there just a bit of inspiration to bo
found in this simple story amid the tales of war and bloodshed from abroad?
Get Them Individually, Uncle
LuSfiH Bam iS 'I™? 11tt i le ri ShV l>a? k in making the activities of alien plotters in this country the
subject of an.investigation by a federal grand jury. It is but waste of time and effort' to attempt to fix
the responsibility for their pernicious efforts upon their respective governments
rtuk-jfei P°we7."•. mi!(.' h t. 00 wily t0 Permit themselves to be directly involved and even if their
comphc.ty were proved by implication, they could not be held to an accountability sufficiently satisfac-
The way to do is to go after the individual plot! ere, no matter whom, or where found, and deal with
tes». r At£: rjttxst&z* dosree sm" to the *«
■ TLeat them as <-ommon law breakers and put down the nefarious scheming!
QUESTIONS THEY WRITE TO
CYNTHIA GREY-HER ANSWERS
Dear Miss Grey: I think Margie has a perfect right to re
fuse to have Diek 1* mother live with them. A "Son" says she
Is selfish; if caring for our own happiness is selfishness I sup
pose she is, but don't most of us do it once in a while?
I agree with "Daughter-ln-Law" that Dick can make enough
trouble for Margie without taking that disagreeable old woman
into her home. If she does that, she may as well give up all
hope of having any pleasure or even any peace as long as her
mother-in-law lives. Mother Waverly is not the kind of a being
who could fit into another's home and make a welcome for her
self. Her desirea and opinions are too pronounced to allow her
to b» anything but first, as she would have no right to be if
living In Margie's home.
Young people have as much right to enjoy life as those who
M» old. and because a person is old Is no reason why he or she
should be allowed to destroy the happiness of others.
COUNTRY GIRL.
■ ■
Dear Miss Grey: A couple of friends had an argument
•bout how big the biggest engine in the world is. How much
4o*a it weigh, what company built it, and where is it now?
Hoping you will print this soon, am much obliged
kMRS. a H. MATLOCK.
Xhe largeftt and most powcrfol locomotive ever Imilt is the ro
d Triplex Omipound, completed by Hi,. Baldwin liocomotlve
(s for the Erie railroad in April, 1014. It weighs B.~>;»,o"><> pounds.
rtiHini'H-r of Us driven Is <M inch<*>.
This locomotive 1* used for pu*her «wrvice on the eight-mile
Bade of the Krie oast of Nus<]uetinnna, l'«.—a grade of .%« feet to a
■il> sail handle* a weight which it formerly took three locomotive*
»» haJwil*-.
Dear Miss Qrey: Permit me to write a few lines in answer
to the girl trying to live on «lx per, straight.
She wants to know why there are so many married women
holding positions that single girls should hare. I am a married
Vonan who has tried to get work from dire necessity, and
■went got any yet. I got a little work a while ago, and with
the money bought my husband and two children and myself
Kbi underwear. I suppose you'll Bay "what does her husband
4»t" Well, he does not drink, may swear some and chews; but
is always at home with us, and every penny goes for necessities.
He works eleren hours a day at a position that is not only ruin
tec his health, but gets a mere pittance.
We are paying on a home. Most we lose It? My husband's
tMome does not even cover our living expenses. We are going
hoklnd and it nearly drives me frantic. There are children to
Mad to school, clothing we need but cannot buy.
Let me Inform the six per week miss that there are men
tswlng to support families on less than six per, and why? Be
sjh there are so many leeches who won't pay a man a living
Me*- If the/ wonld pay a man what he is really worth to them
r won id nave less joy rides, less extravagant polite society
M« who help the Europeans and a lot of other tommyrot.
I bare hoard women say they wanted to earn a little spend
ts* fjMHf, wbe* If the truth were known they perhaps needed
I gfcfH or pmtt of stockings or the like. I think Miss Six
fm Mt lucky to t what »he does. If I were single and getting;
■:drif jsfiara par week, 4 get me a decent housekeeping room for
tft wee* and nook none good nourishing food and do my
. *** j|J sfturMd jm.ptrtvi single girls to sell their
*jg«ftft. WB*r HDH n't Cor lack of food, no never. It's
tiwini *h« is i«xy aixi Wtkmi ami lor«« fine clothes and the
** 7 --, kttec work and tasr* a -<>■ ■•! profitn\oa and lam
*«itttf to kMa cm hwttiiwr Wmf pi n ' pm* work badls"
-«b4 ftb# f»«i th«t 1 Kb r*"rv« m J ifiti"'"'l*' •■on
Her Mall Runs the Gamut of Ho
mau I. motions; Lave, Pathos,
Happiness, Tragedy and Tears.
home « night and Sundays as well; but I will work doubly
hard, and I m not going to sell my soul either aouoiy
AN AMERICAN MOTHER AND WIFE.
«»_ ,„ _ WestDort. Wash., Nov. 26. 1915.
article In The 8 xSm. ' Very mUCh lntereßted read« •>' *>»'
w« m Waf 1^. l>eciH. !1y interested In the article about married
women holding the good Jobs, while the single woman depend
ent on her own efforts for a livelihood must walk the streets
n, J, h% fb °Vt arUcle ls akln to a r>ueßtl°n that I have had in
my mind for the past three years.
Question: Why is it that ninety-nine out of one hundred
employers of this Btate would rather employ a man who goes
on a drunk every time he gets the chance and who gives all he
makes to the saloonkeeper, than they would to an honest sober
and indußtrious man who saves his money and wants to get
ahead in the world?
These conditions I have found to be true, more especially
in logging camps and in sawmills, also on deep-sea going and
boats doing work ineide of harbors, and 70 per cent of work other
than mentioned above.
They know when they hire such a man that he cannot be
depended upon, as he not only endangers his own life and that
of his fellow employes, but his employer's property as well-
I came here from the east three years ago giving up a
good government position to make my home in this state, and i
have found this evident desire on the part of employers to give
the man who is fond of booze a preference over one who
doesn't, that I would like to hear your opinion on this subject,
also reply from any reader of The Times.
Is a man forced to become a drunkard and associate with
that class and follow up what drink leads to in order to make,
a living in this state?
I am a married man and the father of four boys and a girl
ranging in age from five to fourteen years of age. We all pre
fer the farm to city life, but have not- Uccn able in the three
years I have been here to save up enough to even make a pay
ment on a farm. Am an engineer by trade and experienced
farmer. '
Must I go back east where I can make a living for myself
and family, simply because I don't boose.
I hope the brewers and saloon men will go out of business
the first of the year, but am afraid they will "dig* up some
thing to keep tbe state from going dry.
I am not a religious or a prohibition crank—in fact, -I
don't belong to any church—but would like to see the drink
problem banished from this state.
Begging your pardon for writing so much,
I remain your respectfully,
HARRY.
THE TACQMA TIMES
MEMBER OF TUB HCltll'l'M NORTHWEST ÜBAOt'K OF
mCWSPAI'IEIUL TW«crapble News Mrvloa of the United Press
Association.
Kutercd M the potofflow, Tacomn, Wash., as second-ciaM
matter. Hnbli»b«d by the Tarawa Times P«h. Cm. fcvwy
Kreuine Kxcept Htwday. Official paper of dtf of Tatiuis.
I'HO.NF AH department*, MMhi IS. II
THI TAOOMA TDOEfI
both ways." Men are acting on the principle laid down by Theodore Parker, says the author, "Democ
racy means not 'I'm as good as you are,' but 'you're as good as I am.' The square deal in America
gives every man an equal right with any or all competitors to enter the lists for the great prizes of life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
"All the square deal in the world however, cannot make lazy and worthless men equal with active,
industrious and good men. These inequalities are neither social nor political, but personal and abid
ing." Cooper considers education the great American passion.
"It is the thing we as a nation care for more than we care for money or for poweT if the sign of such
allegiance can be measured by the sacrificial wealth and energy we pour out for its possession." The
weakness in our educational system he finds in the neglect of its spiritual side. "The trades of yester"
day have become the learned professions and callings of today." The student "has gained much over
his forefathers in the machinery of effective educational action; he has lost something in the region of
his soul. • • • • The educators of America are already realizing that their task is only half done
when they have vocationalized their system; it now must be spiritualized."
One quotation which Mr. Cooper uses contains, perhaps, the essence of the ideals of the average
American: \
"Thomas Huxley gave an immortal definition of education when he called it the ability to make a
man do the things he ought to do when it ought to be done, whether he felt like doing it or not."
But many men are of many minds. Mr. Cooper asked 100 men to name the leading ideals of their
associates. Some of the answers which he received will be printed in another issue of The Times.
ADVERSITY IS
SOMETIMES
HARD UPON
A MAN;
BUT FOR
ONE MAN WHO
CAN STAND
PROSPERITY
THERE ARE A
HUNDRED
THAT WILL
STAND
ADVERSITY.
—CARLYLE.
Fifost ——n
I o Anything
How ran I win a fortune In let
ter?—l-^urette. (Stlart breach
of promise suit and faka 'em.)
• • •
Hilly Sunday tells a story of a
pious woman who confessed to
her pastor that she had yielded
to vanity, looked In the glass and
thought herself pretty.
"Go in peace," said the pastor,
"for to make a mistake Is no sin!"
• • *
The goldfish thinks nothing ol
a trip around the globe!— Boston
Transcript.
» • •
Nowadays a weather forecaster
does not dare to propheay hign
winds for fear the administration
will think he is doing press agent
work for Mr. Wm. J. Bryan. —
Chicago Examiner. (What about
the latest pamphlet on "Roots'
issued by the department of ag
riculture?) i
What Taeoma Labor
Unions Are Doing
Relief for stricken families of
Ravensdale mine disaster vic
tims, the coming convention of
the State Federation of Labor and
the furthering of the candidacy of
Walter L. Johnson, president, for
a place on the school board at the
Dec. 4 election, were the big sub
jects before the Central Labor
Council at its meeting this week.
Because the Industrial insur
ance fund is about depleted, the
council asked all unions to con
tribute to the relief fund, which
will be forwarded to Ravensdale.
The call for delegates to the
state convention said that pro
posed referendum measures will
add particular Importance to the
meeting.
The committee which is push
ing the candidacy of Johnson re
ported that hit election to the
school board would be assured If
all union members get busy.
In a short address, Johnson de
clared his belief in protection of
school children before, not after
a disaster, fitness as the only con
sideration in the selection of
teachers, and .Inter-city school
athletics.
The Union Labeled Goods dis
play committee reported all ar
rangements for the display week
to* begin Nov. 29. The Central
Labor Council has secured a
room In the Taeoma theater build
ing, Ninth and Broadway, for the
display.
The Taeoma Central Labor
Council went on record Wednes
day evening as being against the
open shop policy employed in the
construction of the new Ford
I BANKING BUSINESS [
z You have more or less of it. Possibly jf
: it is with us. Huch being the case you J
z know something of our service. But if :
| not a patron, wouldn 't it be well for you ;
z to become onei s
;L it
NOT OFTHN. HOWRVKR
"Does your husband ever give
you any little surprises?"
"Oh, yes. Now and then he
comes home sober."
* * •
When Darwin wrote about ths
"Struggle for Existence" years
ago,it's too bad he didn't have
present-day prices to «?o on.
* • •
John Speedy Rush has lu-i-.i
kicking his way into football
fame lately on the Princeton
team. (He ou^hta be a good
one.)
* • •
oaMrunu
He—ls that young friend of
yours gone? t
She—Yes—completely.
» • *
NOT MUCH
"I just told Prof. Jones that 1
was indebted to him for all 1
know."
"What did he say?"
"He suiil it was a mere trifle!"
SENDS $2 FOR
MINE RELIEF
The Times is in receipt of a
check for )2 from Mrs. M. B.
Bruce of Cromwell for sufferers
in the Ravensdale mine disaster.
It has been forwarded to a relief
fund being raised by the Union
Record, the organ of the Seattle
Central Labor Council, and will
1)0 put to good use by the unions'
plant at Oklahoma City.
The Musicians' union has an
nounced it will furnish all the
free music necessary to make the
coming label week a success. Mer
chants say they will decorate their
windows from Nov. 29 to Dec. 5.
The dance given by the Bar
tenders' union last Wednesday
evening is said to have been the
best ever given by the union.
•Charles Perry Taylor, secretary
of the Washington State Federa
tion of Labor and organizer of
the Blue Cross league for chil
dren, has submitted to the local
secretary a great number of new
names. The league was organized
to instill In the children the ne
censlty of fairness.
Garment Workers expect a
Ylslt from International Presi
dent Rlskert, on his return to
the east from San Francisco.
The teamsters' union is still on
a strike.
The longshoremen report an
unusual activity in their line of
work.
The bakers went on record at
the last meeting to vote solidly
for Walter Johnson.
Rain has kept the painters
from much outside activity.
Moving picture operators an
nounce they will make a credit
able display for label week.
CONFESSIONS
OF A WIFE
tCopyrliiht, 1910, by Ktmpaptl
Kulrriirinr \ uurlii I lon. 1
Of all the despicable things on
this earth the anonymous letter is
the most despicable.
"Margie, I think that Eleanor
Kairlow has one of the most de
spairing faces I have ever seen,"
said Mary, after we left the hos
pital this morning. "It seems ut
terly devoid of hope."
"Well, you know, Mary, my
dear, that poor Eleanor, from be
ing a girl In the very cream of
society, has dropped, through loss
of relatives and money, to the
skimmed milk of work-a-day life."
"But," Mary persisted, "1 don't
believe that the work of a hospital
nurse would leave that hopeless
look upon her face. I have not
seen her In a year so so, but I re
member then her beauty struck
me peculiarly vivid, as that of a
woman drunk with the joy of liv
ing. Now she looks like the cold,
gray dawn of the morning after."
"Are you not allowing your
imagination to play your usual
good sense tricks, Mary? To me
Eleanor Falrlow shows the face
that always accompanies an over
worked body and a disappointed
BOUl."
"That's it," said Mary, eagerly.
"She looks soul starved. Her eyes
followed you so eagerly, as though
she wanted to' love you—wanted
you to love her—but that some
thing was always holding her
back. Why, Margie, I could see
her visibly shrink when you gave
her the flowers and told her that
as soon as Dick told you she was
back in town, you determined to
come and see her and urge her to
come and stay a while with you.
"When you said that, the queer
est look came into her face, as if
for an Instant her heart had
stopped beating. It was, however,
so fleeting that I was not sure I
had seen aright, as I watched her
face and listened to her cool tones
when she said that she 'had al
ready out-stayed her leave of ab
sence and so it would be impos
sible to accept your very kind
offer."
"Mary," I said, impulsively, "I
am very sorry for Eleanor Fair
low, for I think Bhe is in love with
Dick.
"Of course, this is only my own
theory," I hastened to add, as
Mary tried to interrupt me. "I
have only heard vague rumors
and one or two outspoken ones
from Mollie, when Dick and I
were first married, to the effect
that Dick never paid any atten
tion to any other girl beßide Elea
nor Pairlow until he met me."
"Has Dick never said anything
to you about it, Margie?"
"Not a word, and I honor him
for it. He knows I must meet her
often and whatever may have
been between them before I came
into his life it would not be hon
orable in Dick to disclose.'
I did not say, little book, what
I thought; that it was probably
what was between them now that
was worrying me.
Eleanor Fairlow Is a conun
drum to me; she is the woman I
cannot understand. I think she
is a good woman—she is kind and
sympathetic when physical ills are
j "Solid As the L
I Mountain"
The aim of this bank is to
help in the upbuilding of
the community, to assist
legitimate enterprises and
to be at all times of effec
| tive service.
J The National Bank IIL
HI of Tacoina j
Ijl "TAOOMAH OM)KHT AND LAJtGKfIT BAKU" ||||
concerned —and yet she is neither
broad minded nor charitable
where other women seem to be
soul-sick. At times she has the
appearance of fairly hating her
self as well as all other women.
Always I hav e had the idea that,
of all the women I have known, I
would be most interested in Elea
nor Fairlow, if she woirid let me
be so. Perhaps the reason she
interests me is because she is so
mysterious and perhaps — perish
the thought—l am Jealous.
I wonder, little book, if Rich
ard Waverly, or any other man,
is worth the friendship, such as
might be Eleanor Fairlow's and
mine.
How perfectly silly of me. Of
course, Dick and Eleanor are
friends, nothing more, and there
is no reason why Eleanor and I
should not be friends. I am going
to see more of her. Dick chose
me, and Eleanor Fairlow is not
the woman to wrong another
woman.
(Continued Monday.)
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suffer with eczema, ringworm,
rashes and similar skin troubles.
A little zemo, gotten at any drug
store for 25c, or $1.00 for extra
large bottle, and promptly applied
will usually give instant relief
from itching torture. It cleanses
and soothes the skin and heals
quickly and effectively most skin
diseases.
Zemo is a wonderful disap
pearing liquid and does not
smart the most delicate skin. It
is not greasy, is easily applied and
costs little. Get it today and say*
all further distress.
Zemo, Cleveland.
\ SENSIBLE
ROAD
There are many things
of importance to us
all.
GOOD HEALTH gives
you a fighting chance.
MORALITY commands
respect.
EDUCATION makes
your chances easier.
THRIFT insures inde
pendence.
A SAVINGS ACCOUNT
moans THRIFT.
The road to all leads
through this bank.
Tacoma Savings
Bank & Trust Co.
Pacific Aye. at 11th.
4 Per Cent on Savings