The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 10, 1914, Page 4

** front and shoot the poor Ge THE SEATTLE STAR. MEMBER OF SCRIPYS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSrAPHRs 1| \| year $8.25.| THAT HOLY war Is now a month old, Must be wholly holy. . ALL THAT will throw his life speed. ive for his life.” Rot! A man vice or for a valueless burst of man hath will he way for a worthle: THE AUSTRIANS have won everything In sight from the start. | We know that, because we always read the Vienna dispatches. | | | STAR—THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1914. PAGE 4. HAVING STUDIED the newspaper pictures of ox-Tammany Chief | - Croker and Princess Sequoyah of the Cherokees, whom he married, ers! can’t help feeling that the Indian lady cheated to a fareyewell. Let’s Look Out for Our Watches NTIL public officials will disch. rebutted by sufficient evidence, the law assumes ¢ their duties honestly There is no disposition to quarrel with this axiom most recently propounded by Judge Albertson However, good citizens, let us not throw prudence to the winds. | While we may feel secure we will get an honest count trom certain drunks and plug-uglies who manage to find) places on the election boards, let us, nevertheless, make sure our ‘kets are not picked at the same time. aay be all right to trust ‘em with the purity of the ballot box, but we'll be darned if we don't call for the police any dark night we see ‘em loitering near our homes “To the Highest Bidder” HE cleverest lawyer often gets as much as $200,000 a year; the cleverest surgeon, $100,000; the most skillful merchant, a million or more. And their power to earn lasts many a Perhaps the poorest paid of the so-called professions are those of the preacher and teacher; yet the top notchers in these professions draw from $10,000 a year up, and no doubt could get more if their minds ran in the direction of money There's nothing out of the way, therefore, in the fact that the greatest ball pitcher of his day, who can look forward, at the furthest to only a few more years of earning power, should be signed for two years at close to $18,000 a year; mor is there any reason, so far as we know, why he should mot accept the highest bid. Walter Johnson won his way to the top and can’t stay there a minute longer than the quality of his work allows. | He isn’t “out for money” a bit more than are the | who seek to capitalize his skill and renown If baseball is to be a business it will need to yield to business rules. Those who like to think of it as merely a sport for | sport’s sake can, come warm weather, find plenty of /back lots where it will flourish and entertain on that basis. Let the Experts Go Hide! | E are gradually acquiring a teeming lot of disgust for war experts. They've been filling our soul with hor- ror by stories about Germany’s being starved out of the war, and about England’s quitting because her financial credit would slide out from under her, and about all of France's! able-bodied men being soon in the grave or the hospital, and/ about the whole caboodle of fighting nations running out of powder. Those experts have published just acres of proof that the European war couldn't last, just because it was too fierce, and the peaceful, shivering part of the world has swal-| "~ lowed the testimony, pretty considerably. | 7 And then we observe Mexico. | Resources? Why, that little old Mexico hasn't had any, and she’s been fighting for years and, today, there’s more fight in her than ever. She has four kinds of money, none it worth much over eleven cents on the dollar. She's fought, in the past four years, about all the varieties of revo- lution that can be concocted. And, today, she turns up with three provisional presidents—Carranza, Gutierrez and Gon- zales, count ’em—with more in the incubator. Wobody pro- ducing food, no money worth shucks, and everybody presi- dent or going to be! Resources determining war? Those " wise-looking experts had better study Mexico a bit! _ As to Peace-Makers RESIDENT WILSON seems to oppose discussion of the question of national defense at this time, on the id that it would weaken the influence of the United tes as a peace-maker. Well-intentioned and powerful though he may be, the +, president cannot stop public discussion of matters that inter- est the people, and the people surely are interested in the country’s condition for defense, as never before. Blessed is the peace-maker—and, usually, bruised, too—| but in the case of Uncle Sam, exposed to trouble through his foreign holdings and his Monroe doctrine, the peace-maker would do well to carry under his robe of filmy white a trusty billy and a couple of automatics. In some instances, an angel makes the best peace-maker; in others, it takes a policeman. It is decision as to this choice that the people are dis- cussing, amongst other things, and the president can’t stop it any more than he can stop the water that’s going over the rocks of the Niagara. HAS KICK ON CHARITY Editor The Star: I read in The Star an account of a Belgian sol- » dier who bad a 4 pair of} used in thousands of other ways, shoes for his 3-year-old kid which|we could enrich and beautify the he intended to send away, and has| world, to say nothing about stop- ~ them in the hospital with him. |ping the ughter of human be * The worst of this war {s that/ings in war, ‘ the poor Belgian will, if he gets| War ts nothing but cold-blooded, + well, be compelled to go to the| premeditated murder. Men go out mans. and shoot each other. Why? F While I am writing this I wish mne told them to! T «« to call attention to the way the have no grudge agains * warring nations are wasting the those who are * food that women and children are R. badly in need of. | hate to hear of | * the Belgians being hunery, but when we feed those people we are only prolonging the war. Our good Red Cross women go * over there and sacrifice their lives - all to doctor up a soldier so he may shoot another. THOS, MILLER building mammoth reservoirs and making good roads so the farmer / could get bis crop to market, and each cther AGAINST BELGIAN RELIEF Editor The Star: Why are the people sending so much to the Bel-| gians, while our own people starving? are Soctety girls are going | |to send a milé of pennies to the queen; a ship will sail in a few OPPOSED TO WAR | weeks with a full cargo, and all Editor The Star: If the billions | for the Belgians and billions of dollars now spent| England and France get the use fm war and in preparation for war|of the Belgian army, and why Were spent in digging canals,|should they expect us to send food| Gredging rivers, draining swamps,| for the homeless? GM.H | Whe | Virginia t. and Eighth Av., Beattie. Kitchen Privileges ' siegantiy furnished rooms, with the best In cleanliness, comfort and courtesy for the least money. Transient, 600 te $1; Weekly, $2.60 to $4. Chicago just now is going in strongly for mu- nicipal dancing. It has discovered that it isn’t for folks to get out of sight of pa and ma pen grand their fun in some place which isn’t safeguarded. So it is providing music, supervision and smooth floors and charging a small admission. But even that hasn’t stilled complaint. “I should not care,” a school teacher says, HER CHEMIST BEAU “THESE TECHNICAL BOOKS ARGS DRIVING MG DELIRIOUS, Bur I'V@ A New Basu WHo/s A CHEMIST, AND I Have To STUDY VP IP I'M To Nake “AND, MR, BEAKER I 4m exceEDingry INFATUATED WITH EXPERIMENTS IN CALCIUM CARBIDES “MISS DILL PIcKLes, Do You KNOW THe FORMULA FOR A GOOD Loar OF BREADS” “AND AS FOR THS NEW CLEMENT, ZIRCONIUM, MANY A New FORMULA — ~ THEN PARGWELL DLLPICKLES, I an DISAPPOINTED! "NAN-NO, 2 Don't Becieve “Pa, you telling Mr. Smith that she an old hen.” “B-b-but- “An layin’ home.” ' she said all right, she'd be {¢ . A CASE OF BUNK 2- “Well, my little man, school's over for the day and you are now taking home your books to con your les- sons, | suppose?” “Naw! I'm only takin’ dese books home to con de teacher!" I told auntie that I heard Great Scott!” for you when you came “A MAN’S A MAN FOR A’ THAT” “to send a daughter of mine where she might meet any character whose credentials consist of only 15 cents,” Yet every day this teacher sees scores of daughters sitting alongside characters who don’t even have 15 cents; and, far from being spoiled by it, they usually look backward upon their school days as the happiest days of their lives. One of the Chicago papers expresses similar qualms, fearing lest the municipal dances should be invaded by “undesirable persons.” As if character were a matter of money or dress or social position! Will it ever be possible, do you suppose, to get these superior persons to realize that they’re only two-legged humans, like the rest of us, averag- ing neither better nor worse and needing democracy quite as much as the poorest folks on earth? ou RETT TRUE “MOST ANYTHING. In Plain Prose milk off the front porch one cold Bi morning he found a pillar of the | “Oh, mamma,” he cried, |torrents over the ruina of the : broken and dismembered edifice. | Old Editor—What's that? Whi }do you mean, young fellow? | Young Reporter — I — er — the flood washed away Pat McCann's cowshed | Showing he: exclaimed ui barely filled the bottle, but one heaps it up.” | Good M: When little Be THAT JAR OF MUSTEROLE “2 ON THE BATH-ROOM SHELF) 's"alc* rat in that, |Has Relieved Pain for Every | One in the Family. When little Suste had the croup when Johnny got bis feet wet and caught cold; when father eprained his knee: when granny’s rheumation . Useless Wife—Oh, George, do order a rat-trap to be sent home today, George—But you bought one last dear, but there's a Anything Else? Cavalry trooper appointed as tn- terpreter in next draft would be |extremely grateful for the follow. ing pocket dictionar! French- English, German man, Flemish Flemish; also, pair UsTE: . field MUSTEROLE sA"\with sling —An ad in BRITISH ARTILLERYMAN DESCRIBES A DUEL WITH GERMAN ‘BLACK MARIAS’ Staff Correspondence. ONDON, Dec. 10.—A letter from France, from J. F. Fairley, English Royal Garri ye: ed up into close range, ing our Infantry a lot of elle Fr on the men’s ne that they are rendered much less efficient in trenches Therefore, It is of the utmost Importance to keep gune quiet. 1 Is charged with high explosive material, and, as eight Inches in diameter and three feet long, you can imagine what a frightful row they make when they explode. “A column of black smoke arises, | should think, for 200 feet, and debris of all kinds is strewn around within a radius of 80 to 100 yards. “Fortunately, they do very little damage, as they rarely land plump In a trench, “Yet, for all that, they are dangerous from their moral ef- fect, eo they have to be stopped, and | am writing this behind our four old guns that are pumping 240 pounds of lyddite into the beggars every 30 seconds. “Our observing officer Is perched up on a town hall tower, some three miles away, and he can eee the target. 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