The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 12, 1918, Page 6

ee PAGE 6 THE SE ATTLE Ave. Near EN OF SCRIPTS NORTHWEST Le STAR ye OF NEwsrarens 4 Prone Association f May 8, 1899, at_the Postoffice al Act of Congress Marek 3. 187% jane M Wash. under the nnn i { city, BSc per month; § montha, $1.50; 6 m mths, 92.78: 5.00, o aht ton, Outside yt year, in the State of Washington ig, “es, city, Noe month, $4.40 for € months, or $9.00 per year. Be: x Co ¥ it departments. 0, | i ——— — . : = 6©Ha! Is It the First Robin? a It is observable that, by sincere application, etc., Roose- eep some of the limelight of publicity shining upon himself, which justifies the suspicion he’s going to run for the presidency. And it doesn’t take much hard study to discover that his proclamation, volun- velt continues to k noise of convention hammers to sound just like a platform. Evidently he sees a future clear-cut cleavage in Ameri- can sentiment and proposes to be right noticeable when the time comes for one of the parties to call for a flag-bearer. Our boys in Europe, says the colonel, haven't beery fighting for Wilson's “14 peace points.” Not one in a thousands ever heard of ’em, he says. They've been fighting to smash Germany. Also, the British need the greatest navy and we should concede it. We should preserve our absolute eco nomic independence and not undertake to interfere in European, Asiatic or African matters. To be wholly anti- Wilson and reactionary, the colonel should have built into his platform a prohibitive protection plank, but this is a bet he seems to have overlooked. oe But, say what you please, there is strong possibility of a political alignment in America along some such lines as indicated by the colonel thus early and a-plenty. We are to get back some two million voters who have been over in France and Belgium familiarizing themsel by more or less immediate contact, with the Hun. A very considerable number of these may return with stronger in- clination to “smash Germany” than to absorb Wilson’s world- wide altruism. “A hateless war,” suggests a reader, “would bea deal like a fellow painting the town red by drink- ing all the near-beer in the soda fountains’ stock.” Then, the socialists, while indorsing the promotion of international democratization, are solidly opposed to keeping American forces in Russia to shoot up the Bolshevik soviet Also, we have an element in our midst believing that our mission is accomplished if Germany is put out of war business for keeps, and that interference in European and Asiatic matters means only calamitous “entangling alliances.” We don’t yet know where vested interests will rally or what President Wilson will actually accomplish, but it will be interesting to watch the throes contributed by the colonel toward the bornin’ of a new party platform. But, maybe he’s only trying an anti-Wilson keynote on us. What about it, Theodore? (Crime No Friend to Beauty The “primrose path” is not the road to beauty. As a beautifier of face and form crime is a failure. Let “May Clark”—that’s one of her names—tell you about it. She has been a professional criminal $8 years. She began “going wrong” in Chi- cago when 17. She is known in every large city in the United States as a pickpocket. She is in fail now in Kansas City under one of her dozen or more aliases, accused of picking a man’s pocket of $200. When 17 she drew a seven-year term in Chicago for pocket-picking. = She was paroled after one; year. She was arrested ag few months later in Louis- gon ville and again paroled. In a 1900 she was ordered to get out of Kansas City. In 1908 she was ar- rested in Boston for alleged robbery. In 1912 she was in jail in Philadelphia. In 1913 she was sent to prison from Cleveland. Now she says she-is repentant—at 55. “I'm going straight from now on,” she says. “Crime doesn’t pay.” 3 She has paid youth, health, good looks, character, respectability. That's the price of living the criminal life, of “the primrose path.” _«.. Relief At 55 treading | been a large factor in keeping alive Armenian, Syrian, | Greek and other exiles and refugees of Western Asia. On two former occasions I have American people in behalf of these homeless sufferers, whom the vicissitudes of war and massacre had brought to the extremest need. The response has been most generous, but now the period of rehabilitation is at hand. Vastly larger sums will be required to restore these once prosperous, but now im- poverished, refugees to their former homes than were required merely to sustain life in their desert exile. Greek and other war sufferers in the Near East will re- quire outside help to sustain them thru the winter. Many of them are now hundreds of miles from their homeland. The vast majority of them are helpless women and children, including 400,000 orphans. The American committee for relief in the Near East is appealing for a minimum of $30,000,000 to be subseribed January 12-19, 1919, with which to meet the most urgent needs of those people. I, therefore, again call upon the people of the United States to make even more generous contributions than th have made heretofore to sustain thru the winter month those who, thru no fault of their own, have been left in a starving, shelterless condition, and to help re-establish these ancient and sorely-oppressed people in their former home: on a self-supporting basis. (Signed) WOODROW WILSON. The White House, Nov. 29, 1918. Have You Any Metal Scraps? Look up the metal scraps in your home. some, no doubt, in the cellar, in the attic for which you have no use. Make good use of them. Sell them for War Savings Stamps. The Metai Shop, maintained by patriotic women, will buy the metal from you and give you stamps in return. Gold, silver, brass, copper—any metal—is good, Love Isn’t Blind Love is not blind. Cupid’s eye searc Among our most beautiful contemp! is the happi- ness love is bringing many of the war’s rhtless heroes, They will walk love’s path of blessedne j The world’s womanhood, in its tender, gentle, loving cerity is recognizing the worth within, ; i ~200 from one r imony to sacred ic for the great Goodness. Love is a breath of paradise. You have $s the soul, sin- nation hospital Is, the groping that} teered to New Yorkers the other night, lacks only the} appealed to the! , in the garage, |‘ RAAAARARAI, STARSHELLS RARARAARAAARAAAARARAAAS I A WORD FROM WISE politictan's nis, “Turn ‘ out ix fair play.” t answer we have heard to What is of The bes The world’s war debts are $200 000,000,000, says some busy man who has been figuring it up. We should worry us see DID ofr) WEIGH SUNDAY? Rob Felltz, with the Knitting Mills, and his law, Ralph Matthias, rabbita and Saturday with Addie Klein, near Huron, O, One of the party bagged a ‘possum weigh ing 42 pounds on Saturday-—Cleve land O., Le WHAT ON Standard otherin hunting were . The old German govePnment hav ing used paper ax a substitute for leather, wool, rubber, coal, steel and a few other things, the new government is using it as a substh tute for money wood, eee pyvou SUPPOSE STUCKMAN MADE IT STICK? Ray Hutt of New Paria went | wh nk hunting Satur long until he ran a tree stump. Thin and it was nto a akunk ng he could capture the little fellow hia ax and while cutting im the stump, made a mixslick and cut his toe off. Dr, Stuckman was called and as quick as possible adjusted the meffber, and sewed it on again, but whether it will stick fast is a ques tion.—Milford, Ind., Mail, eee One thing that stand is all the fur England over the question of whether William Ho henzoliern formally abdicated as em peror of Germany, Whether he quit Germany or not, makes no differ Germany quit him. eee we can't under A sailor writes from the other aide that the steamer Cyclops x in the Kiel canal. He doesn't say, but | Kitchener, we suppose, is on board | the ship. | eee | THE MELANCHOLY MUSE Ah! Ah-ba! Today, I had fish cakes For tunch. |The finh cakes were very good | Tomorrow, 1. shall. eat finh cakes, | And the next day I whall eat fith cakes also. Yet how sad it ts For fish that in the mountain stream in the swam, or rolling ocean swiftly | | Into a formless muddle to be made! But fish cakes are good to eat, | And will not Fate eat me, Eat me like I eat a fish cake? Ah, while I live, I shall live to eat; | Tomorrow, I shall eat fish cakes. | And the next day, eat some more! / —Pomer. . . Somebody else claims to have a substitute for gasoline. It ten't used in engines in the same way that gasoline is. You pull up the engine's sleeve and shoot the stuff Into its arm. Just About Folks BY REV. CHARLES STELZLE When a thing's 100 per cent pure it's pretty nearly useless. The bride who wanted a perfectly pure gold wedding ring was soon sorry because it was so soft that it easily became dented—it needed just enough alloy to help it stand the wear and tear of everyday life. Pure gold, ax such, hasn't much practical value; it's only when it's For more than three years American philanthropy has| mixed with other motais that it be-| comes really useful | A nation must have iron as well }as gold to make good And men are much like nations pect. There must b jin this r | certain man's mak r man.” ow would you like to live with a rfect” man or woman? Good night! It would be like hell amount of roughness in p if he's to be “a reg r b and yearnings, which in themselves ring with them little heartaches make suffering more exquisite and returning joy more thrilling l'll venture to say that YOU have often set up a man of straw and pounded the daylights out of him, the “man of straw” representing somebody whom yéu heartily dislike or think you do, and with whom you have carried on an imaginary con versation, during which you just him “fits. fow been stirred by what you'y | mind, of | And how excited you've become a you carried on your rel Pr in your own “solitaire” quar people become as trees | and mobiles as shadows | Now, that's the best way to quar rel, if quarrel you must, but the nervous energy required to speed up your nation dur ur men tal ramp? rightly directed, might have brought about “peace with vi | And you wouldn't have said to jbim all that you imagined anyway lif you had looked him straight in the eye, because, among other rea ons, he might have la heroles ed at your | WE BUY Liberty Bonds Spot Cash Paid Any amount, o insue, on the basis of the New York Stock Exchange Northwestern Stock & Bond Co. 601 Alaska Bldg. It doewn't owe the money to of us. t's thank the Lord for the! of human nature and the dness of life, even tho they » v THE SEATTLE STAE |} Americans think today. 1) ) ; Upon our decision will r civilized man, dang which pay Pp front us, Is it not apparent th. \ Does not any nation tion of many paupers? If it is dangerous fo the individual. have a normal nation with ernmental control, When commerce is mental and moral uplift. dividual becomes the aim States deserves to be, for the United States or any and democratic. We have evaded the must do it now. us open our eyes to the of tomorrow, | ‘The Tale the Buttons Told | By JESSIE M. THOMPSON Ho wat beside me in the car—a | tired, thin old chap, With work-worn fingers fumbling a | greasy, threadbare cap {A- dozen buttons, more adorned that dingy lid, And brightened up its graynens with their blue and gold and red. I gazed upon the bright array and whispered to myself, “Too bad the Huns are beaten and the kaiser’s on the shelf; The button factories will go broke, and it meems to me, old skate, | You'll never carry out your plan to | dress in armor plate.” The old man saw my silly grin, mis | took it for a smile, then he told the story of the | buttons on his tile “There's one for every issue of my | Uncle Samuel's bonds I tet! you, kid, it's been no joke to make the cash go ‘round; This one is for my union-—the boil ermakers’, see? this one shows I gave five bucks for world-wide liberty LETTERS TO FARES TOO HIGH Editor The Star: I have | numerous letters and stories in your | paper in regard to the poor car serv or- lens, And And read lice in the city. In the East, where street car traffic In heavy, two care are managed by one crew, and ev ery passenger gets a & In Se jattle, people are herded in one car | that comes along infrequently, like cattle. Some time ago, there was Five cents is © we are get | talk of a 6cent far too much for the serv ting. If the company 4 able to build a car line, why cannot it operate the line efficiently? We gain nothing |by “waiting for the next car” or “moving up in the aisle.” Another thing, the company should see that a few street car windows are kept open during the influenza crisis. They don't try to keep them open if they wanted to keep them open \a few nails would turn the trick A READER. | PANS PHONE SERVICE Editor The Star: I have read THURSDAY, America’ BY “A WESTERNER” The United States of tomorrow will be just what We are now to decide what we wish To make a wise decision we must consider the rs have confronted articular attention to the dangers which -con- merely at commercial supremacy is doomed to perish? of the nation, it is dangerous for it to be the aim of To do this you must place commerce under gov- people, the aim of the individual becomes phy: A nation with such an aim is what the United want to get out of the mire of selfish individualism and lift the rest of the civilized world with us, we To a certain extent we sacrificed our individual interests for the cause of freedom and now that the great war is won, for God's sake, let thought and action for the nobler and better America THE EDITOR DE 12, 1918. s Future it to be. est the future welfare of other nations and at any nation which aims perish which strives only for military or naval supremacy? Is not a nation of many million-heirs also a na- r commerce to be the aim When commerce is made the servant of the peo- ple and not the people the servant of commerce, you at least a right to endure. of the sical, And the aim of the in- of the nation. made the servant only with such an aim can other nation be noble, free , truth long enough. If we truth and make ready in That Red Cross button there has| cost me many, many dimes, But when the woldiers need the mon I don’t kick on hard times doughnut lassie hit me for my! ten hours’ hard earned pay I got thin badge, but wife's new shoes must walt another day Now that His old face beam. | ed with pride and wrinkled up| with Joy “That nervice pin with one blue! star is for my youngest boy, | ght when Tom became a man I'd sit and smoke my cob, But Tommy's over there in France, A rt | DIVERSIONS OF Giving Twice at Only One Pric e That's if this Chr a 11 to The Star by N. B. A) ym in W » 11.--Interesting nd it's Make a note right ne hich all billeted together « elem things your gifts ae Sali + babe WAR BAVINGE e Frenchman, given time off, Z an get them at most to lean sinet a door ‘ and they oan clgaret in hand, and watch the placed in an Christer a 4 while he } : od choe with 1 = ne price be | crowned, ar intervals, offers a ur present you give Pans ment ald in (carrying on Scot will sit for hours, with ‘ork program, lege otfaiaht im front ef him os The crowding —wniting — the ground, arguing any question straining—the miles of nislea— Red Cross gave $16,000 to help from a every minute the tension ig (\two clubs for Belgtun woldiers on The Yank prefers to sit on a door creases. leave in Paris tep and eat nuts or Haten to a band A glass of Borden's Malted pe concert. No matter how weary, he'll Milk irons out the day's wriak- run from a doorw to tw Jes and sends you home relaxz- pavement when @ pop ed. Reviving, satisfying food. and-drink — any fountain. 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