The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 21, 1914, Page 4

WEST LBAGU oF soRIrrs No} oF NEWsrArens Telegraph News Service of the ed at Seattle, Wash. Postoftice as Seoond-Cla up to #IX mos.; six row, $1.80; elty, 260 @ month, Me, Phone, Mata 0400, Private 1 departments. Published Datly by “The Stn ty Making a Church Make Good Livy Richard HE MAN in the picture is a man I'd like you to know—| Paul Moore Strayer, a minister who is doing things \ decade ago he landed in Rochester, N. Y., to be pastor of a group of well-to-do Presbyterians in a swell church on the swellest avenue. They were folks who mostly went to church Sundays out of custom and because its soft music and subdued light were restful They go now because it is a vital place, a charging station and a work- house. They fill the pews. And— think of it!—strangers ARE REAL- LY WELCOME even if they're not tolled up. Strayer refused to be a restricted sinister; to spend his time visiting. e insisted (tactfully, of course) that job was to KNOW LIFE and d a hand where it was needed ost Hence worked with the labor himself elected fraternal hed in their parades. Tiien he rounded up a series of “People’s Sunday FE ing” Meetings in a down-town theatre and preached religion with a punch in it, but without any frills—one-syllabled religion that the folks could understand. The “P. S. E.” had an advisory committee of uplifters, doctors, “agitators” and others, who helped to make the programs, Discussion was free, fearless but fair; and when the folks on the platform had finished saying their say the folks in the front talked back One night the topic was what to do with the slums— there were pictures of overcrowding and bad housing in a city which had boasted it would not have a slum. “The New Jerusalem; Here and Now” was the way the meeting was headlined Well, this started something; and Rochester got a mode! building code and an impetus to its enforcement. Another time there was a line-up for and against the saloon, with free speech on both sides—and hundreds couldn’t get in. One night’s study of unemployment, with a real hobo’s recital of experiences, led to a general over- hauling of the city’s philanthropies. Strayer preaches Sunday mornings to his regular flock, now more than doubled; but they’re pretty well trained. It is these evening meetings with the men and women who have no church home, who aren't sure the church offers any good to them, which he considers his real ministry His swell church now has a parish house which is a hive of social work, the greater part unselfish; and its bud- get, once so hard to raise, though now thrice what it was, comes easy, for even the rich are interested in a religion ‘which does things. Strayer says it’s nonsense to talk about scrapping the ehurch. “It has a valuable plant and a wealth of fine tradition. ‘Don’t sacrifice these; jump in and save it,” he says. ————ae REPUBLICAN LEADER MANN, In house, prayed yesterday for a Roosevelt or a Jackson to deal with the tolls question. We're not so gure about Jackson, but Roosevelt is still pretty much alive. he Women Teaching Politics to the Politicians HE POLITICIANS thought that not 50,000 of Chicago's women voters would register on the first registration day. * Three times that many registered—nearly two women to one man. The politicians thought that in Chicago's vice-ridden First ward, the traditional roosting place of repeaters, they could stuff in enough false registration to save their bacon, since the “petticoats” wouldn't be “wise.” But the women canvassed the ward from house to house and forced the purging of 2,000 fictitious names. Not being used to housecleanings, what the politicians overlooked was that a new broom sweeps clean By politicians we mean the bipedal experts in trousers who used to know it all EVIDENTLY THERE ARE OTHERS SPRING HAS officially arrived today, and the Panama canal toll question had better hurry up and get settled before baseball shoves it out of the limelight. Shall Wives ‘“‘Obey’’? HURCH of England bishops are having a gabby time trying to find out if they've the nerve to strike out of ety EvEeReTT, DO You REMEMBE R YOU LAST WEEK wo Matt ee eK = : OB YES, MRS. TRUE, 1 MAILED (tT, WHAT ABour IT F weur, I WANT YOu To Maw IT AGAINL =X Found \T A MinuTe AGO Ww “My wife nearly badgers tbe Ife out of me to get @ car.” “Mine uted to, but I stopped neatly.” “How on earth did you do itt” “Told her in the hearing of a bunch of our friends that she should have one for her 40h birthday.” “What is your ambition 7 “To see a moving picture of still life.” BRITISH COLUMBIA SHOWS UNCLE SAM HOW TO HANDLE PUBLICLY OWNED TIMBER By Gilson Gardner | is all be cut. The people's Interest otected, and at the same time WASHINGTON, March 9.—The |lumbermen are encouraged to take Canadian province of British Colum: | up holdings and develop the timber | | bia Is showing the way to all other | Industry. | governments in the matter of doing things for the common people. Under the leadership of Premier McBride and Minister of Lands THE MULE You couldn't call the woman’s side of the marriage vow the word “obey.” Isn’t the issue one of right interpretation rather than the ax? Give us the power to construe the word, and we'd like to see it not only kept in the woman's half, but also put into the men’s. Of course, to expect woman to do the bidding of a burly, brutal husband merely because he has a bully’s might, is absurd and abhorrent. Tf that's what “obey” means or was meant to mean, then out it ought to go, the quicker the better. And it is unfortunately true that creatures of the male persuasion have been known and are extant today (though we believe growing fewer) who have the colossal effrontery to adopt that construction and expect the law to back them in it. Our idea is different. Where love truly is, it exacts doesn’t rest force or obligatio ness, eagerness. To obey the one you lov the obedience , but on willing a pleasure on WITH GREAT BRITAIN spending $14,000,000 more than last year on her navy, it looks as if that little suggestion about disarmament was becoming frayed at the edges. MAYOR GILL and Dr. Matthews shook hands, and cabaret stunts trembled. DEMOCRACY—THAT must be the keynote of the new charter be fore the people will accept it WAR WITH MEXICO | Don't forget that in a war with Mexico, the plain, common people of the United States will shoot down the plain, common people of Mexico, Not much different to taking down your gun and shooting your poverty- stricken, uneducated neighbor around the oorner. Where's the glory? Don't forget that the fellows who are shrieking for war are not going to fight. The men who will have to fight fevers, smalipox, jungle horrors and the poor, down-trodden peons down in Mexico are our own boys of the mill and shop and field. You'll find no plutocrats, pol "i like newspaper editors on the firing line! pe TOere Sn er Wm. R. Ross, the British Columbia the mule “al Hegisiature passed a law which a dng | sures to the citizens of that id | | province an income within 10 years However much | of three millions of dolla r you 01 f three millions of dollars a ye 4 from royalties on publicly-owned | timber. | This act, according to information which comes to Washington, does For pulchritude ts not his sult, To say the very} for publicly-owned timber in Brit most of} ish Columbia what the conservation: him; ists, under the leadership of Gifford His disposition, Pinchot, have been trying to secure sv too, 1s not} ltor the people of the United States! Especially commendable, » stand a lot And, though he'll oft ndable. in the matter of this nation’s water His temper’s undey powers. The act retains in the provincial |government, for the people, the simple title to all timber lands; St permits the taking of timber claims lone mile square at an annual rental of $120 per claim, and for the pay ment to the government of a stump age price, which rises gradually jwith the increased value of timber Under the old act of 1905, the stumpage price per thousand feet | | was 50 cents. | And | The new act increases ft to 75} cents a thousand feet, effective | in 1915, and provides that five years| Where horses cannot keep alive, later there will be added to the roy But die with great facility; alty price per cent of the in-| His treatment frequently is rough,| creased value of lumber at that time| Put he resigned to it above a minimum price of $18 per|And he can toil with vim enough thousand five years there When he makes up his mind to it! the ame thin ill be done | the percentage taken by the government to {ners gradual 5 to 40 per the whole arrangement covering a period off about 40 years. . This means, firet, that the Imm bermen get a reasonable profit out of their operationa—the government takes nothing unless the price is above $18 a thousand It means further, that the people share in the increased of their timber It establiahe ng, co-operatl the government operators He's hard of mouth and obstinate; | Acquaintance soon reveals of him That it is sometimes tempting fate To get too near the heels of him; And when he lays those long ears back No beating or reproving him | Will ever stir him from his track] Until the spirits moving him yet—and the mule will thrive And labor with agility yet each » is a heavy stick The most effective charm to him For, tho’ his muleship's bide is thiek, Good usage does him So look on him with kindly eye And you wiM not repent of it; market price is very high, And he's worth every cent of It! BERTON BRALBY again, Not alwa from con no harm to Mt value eat profitahar:| OH! WOMAN, THOU— pringiple, ia which and the timber are partners The government retains the title to the land, and the right to pre scribe the way in which the timber NEW YORK Wearin eds since June, thinking her hu mand dead, Mr Ira Howlayd, 16, had her spouse arrested when she found he was alive widow's TIIE STAR-—SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1914, HE SEATTLE STAR|| MOST ANYTHING! morn ‘till ro with all her might, tn the rub, rub washin’ folk dude, It's hanging up and takin’ down ar enough Jumt about “eet by. P, 8.—"Say, Indy, they're sell- fn’ washin’ machines cheap this week.” eee 80 Don't! When you waste today regret ting the past you put a mortgage on tomorrow oe Tha’ It A comfortable income fs one that provides “all the comforts of home” with no worry, eee But Not Money Distance lends enchantment to the view, but ft never lends money, Wherein distance ts wine, ta o- —? Getting Results A colored woman was ar- guing and arguing with her husband, and when she had | fintehed he sald “Dinah, | go’ talk don’ a me no mo’ than a flea bite “Well,” she anawered. “Tse awna keep yo’ scratehin’.” | oF Teacher—Did you ask your mamma why the pen was mightier than the sword? Small Floise—Yea, ma'am, She faid it was because papa couldn't sign checks with a sword ee Anxious Mother — Jack, you must remember to use your right hand more, I don’t want you to become left-handed, Little Jack — Don't worry, mamma, Some of the best pitch- ers in the leagu southpawa. ° Where's the Flee? The teacher in a Queen Anne church Sunday school wae illus trating for the children the text: “Arise and take the young chlid and his mother, and fiee into Egypt.” Showing them a large picture, she asked: “Now, isn't that splendid? Here is the mother. Here le the young child, There's Egypt in the distance.” The children, however, looked disappointed, and finally a litte boy piped out: 7 “Teacher, where's the fieat eee “Now, children,” said the teach- er to the funtor class {n arith. metic, “if I had nine yards of cloth, and used five to make a skirt and three to make a Jacket, what would I have left? “A lot of scraps,” promptly an swered the little girl at the foot. eee Harold had discovered a new playmate in a boy who had re cently moved into the neighbor hood. “What sort of a boy ts this Johnnie you talk #o much aboutT™ asked the careful mother. “Oh he's not an angel—that fant bis epectalty—but he's all right,” replied Harold. eee Honest, Anyway Employer—Well, you have a nerve! Asking for « job with a clgaret in your mouth! Applicant—But you for an honest man, didn’t you? | admit that I smok oe Mighty Quarreisome Blobbe—That fellow Bjones ts a mighty quarrelsome sort of fel- low. Slobbs—Yes, even his own state- ments confilet. ANIMALS WHICH YOU'VE NEVER MET ittle A cussed Man hunters call the cuscus, cause it's too sly for them. in danger it hides by hanging, head cuss,” Austra- Be- When downward, among the lea of a | tree, gripping a branch with its tail. Its fur is just the color of dry leaves, and {t sways with the sway- Always Reliable telief from the ailments caused »y disordered stomach, torpid The Star’s: Laugh Department 1 PIANO; 1 POODLE; PANS, March 1¥—~"A dog tor monsteur to play with, a plano for madame to play with, and one child—for the nurse te * care of’—that 8 the make-up of modern French family to an authority on eugenics who writes in a recent issue of the Matin Aw neither the dog nor the ——$—__ 1 CHILD IN FAMILY f¢ plano are expected to be of any use in the next war with Ger many, which. though it never oc curs, 18 always about to, the gov oment is beginning to worry If each family furnishes only onc ebild for the army, how will France obtain enough soldiers to sacrifice before German rons” asks the writer, A PRECOCIOUS KID “I'm giad to hear you have such a bright child. You ought to have some of his smart say ing’ In print.” “They already where he gets them are. That's BUT THIS INCOME TAX 18 SOME EYE-OPENER “Reggio chauffeur.” Jeah me, what for?” has discharged his 8 ais | alousy.” What! Jealous of his chaut. used s¢ feur?” that “Exactly. The chauffeur was paying a larger income tax.” SCHOOL DAYS LET 'EM DRINK BEER Editor The Star In regard to the coming prohibition campaign | to be waged in this state, 1 wish to! state that I cannot see why work men should be deprived of their tr, Boer does not make drunk. ards. It is whisky that does that I also want to say that I think people can be decent and honest without going to church, although I honor everyone who goes to| chureh when they go on account of | religion. But how many really religious? preachers are They don't want anyone to work on Sunday, yet |they do their main work on that |day. A minister should have noth |ing to do with polities, yet, out of ten, you won't find two that aren't busy in politics, SUBSCRIBER, | THE DIVORCE EVIL Editor The Star Saturday Star made a request for night's Jopinions relative to remedies for |the so-called divorce evil, Being a newcomer in your city, I do not know what ideas have been pre- sented, but I would like to advance ing of the tree so naturally that it|@ suggestion on the subject. As I is easily overlooked or mistaken| procured a divorce nine years ago for a big leaf or a piece of dry fruit.|no one else can accuse me of hav The loug tail by which the curious|ing an ax to grind in your sta cuscus hangs ts ox of the most| wh it fs said divorces are so wonderful instruments in animal| easy to procure {anatomy, serving both as foot and} Instead of appointing a “Divorce hand, The cuscus belongs to the | Invest or” tt would be bet to family known as marsuplals, pe-|@ppoint a “Marriage Di |culiar to Australia, and distinguish-| Let the mismated ones get free ed by having a pouch on the under] and then see to it that those apply side, in which they carry thefr|!ng for marriage licenses are old young. Jenough and have judgment enough | to understand the responsibilities they are assuming. Make marriage jharder and the divorce evil w adjust itself, “ALBERTA WARNS LOGGER iver, irregular bowels is given|,, Halter The Star: There is much , |feeling in t locality against a quickly, safely, and agsur-jcortain lumber company which sells sxdly—by the tried and reliable} logged-off land to its employes and |then, when the land is paid for, dis | jeharges them. I hope this will serve as & Warning to others. READER South Bellingham. PILLS SUGGESTS “CURE” Faditor The Star: How can we . In bones, 10e., 28e.. overcome the divorce evil? There -|is a preventive in two. words mUsirerrccMrnarenTENTETT HN top desertion.” How?” T will tell 18 A GOOD PLACE ma vite ote EAE he thirds of divorces are obtain " \* © Restaurant. [ied on pleas of desertion. With The Menls Are Good |proof and a warrant, the deserter WARREN’S LUNCH ean arrested in any part of the Senile iaiicecien tran state, But hat {8 not enough What man or Woman will stay with-| offense! fers not one word of Every deserter should be traced| comfort to the parents of {and brought back to face the com-|{nnocent and unsuspecting . plaint. After punishment ef&ch| of this brute. : deserter should be compelled to| We have too much of this “Baw Yi A WY), ‘Whi, » Well! attended a poker party was gone and you told me you were entertained by & and they contributed to tertainment, . ° Naturally? The fellow who jumps the frying pan into the fi urally thinks he is hot staff a ae bret: in the reach of the law that can] premeditated murders ] e | punish them? Make ft a national] think of, Louis Bundy, will be boys” business, and much utter neglect of home children by the parents. % work and reimburse the state for its expenses, Then there will be no more di- voree problem. 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