The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 14, 1918, Page 6

: : . Listening to the Grate Fire The wood-fire in the open grate. The quiet hour of a wintry evening. a Who does not revel in the combination” ? The pictures in the flames. The musings as the fire crackles, the only sound in the stillness. : Ancients in Persia, in other lands and times, wor-| TE REVJTRZLE ,.,, shiped fire. tion. Now PAGE 6 THE SEATTLE STAR 1207 Seventh Ave. Near Union St. “God Said, ‘I Am eR OF SCRIPYS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF N kh News Service of the United Preqe Assoc i Po “at Second-Claas Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice a Wash, under the Act of Congres# Marek 3, 187% wsrarens sf : 18; mt of ett BSc per month; 3 months, $1.50; 6 montha, o. dy. $4.50 for 6 months, or $9.00 per year. Dy carrier, city, 2S i. ee Published Daily by The Star Pw exchange cone: battalion sent back word to the Germans w axked him t render to “go to hell!" Even preachers have taken to cussing in the pul pit, expecially as they talked about what should be done with the kal ng ago that ngentle t ite be And yet, 1 swearing It was the symbol of purity, of purification. ie Poets have found the fire on the hearth an inspira- (y at the war is over, and we ers e se i res i e g i poals are beginning to settle back into a Painters have seen pictures in the glowing coals. rs e see sil f , . normal way of Hvtni mr We see them, too, in the silence of the evening time. mal way of Hving and speaking y wouldn't it be a good idea to cut But the wood-fire in the open grate is more than @) of tne cuss-words frem our vocabu symbol of purity, more than a creature comfort, more than jary? a sign of personal prosperity, more than a setting for paAnnnnnnnnnnnntrirerorPs dream-pictures. ; It’s a symbol of action. STARSHELLS It’s a picture of ambition. It’s an incitement to endeavor. Oe SA FSS Cee | The flames are never still while there's material to MAKES US THIRSTY Just what was it that President reach. Wilson and President Poincaire had Reaching, reaching, grasping, keeping, never content, ‘tinn | rete mid mg never idle. ae : er é vate | 2° Otner thie morning | Action! That’s what the wood-fire in the open grate t is saying. Overheard in a Street Car i i mt “amvenger (Look car: The flames leap high and higher so long as there is Perscay Pa ore a ant fuel to feed them. When the fuel is consumed the flames) jon being hugged by Madamoiselic | wither and die. France): “Gee, I'd like to see | Ambition must be fed. That's the lesson of the fire. Ne sad Painanéer: “Well, Wien You can’t get the fire of ambition to burn in the worker’s| ula like to see it. too.” | brain to energize his hand unless it is fed, and fed again. “ee ‘Take away incentive, make labor ineffective, and the la- A WoRD FROM borer’s ambition dies. : ‘i JOSH WISE And what is a man without an ambition? An, ax eek treinn without an edge. an’ don't think an’ Employers need to think about this. To get the best th’ one th’t thinks out of the man, give scope to ambition. Put incentive be- an’ don't do make fore him. Put a light in the window of the goal. a fine team. The wood-fire in the open grate is an incitement to eee endeavor. There is no idleness in the fire. There is ful-| In lifting the ban on nemees fillment, accomplished in the flame which attains its end | ifs bs Fig gaol i saerane We look into it and are inspired. § not restricted to suspenders, slippers, We ought all to have an open wood-fire. | handkerchiefs, socks and neckties. ¢ Set your mark there over the grate. Help the other eee anty in abusing Witham n for having a seas hand, Possibly Fit for Self-Government? we es oe ve cray ana We © Of jelicatemsen Germany is becoming more disunited and riotous every pr gsi oo. oe oa i ry '* lain “ : Treat Pritain Germans may not be fit for self-government. Tt tw rep rag They've had no experience. ee aa kvernas aptek of Government has been thrust on them from the days of t sounds plausible, the robber barons, and the first Hohenzollerns, until now. fellow to do the same. ? Yea, it does knot. Palas Sttaat? ; ; ; eee aon. free cities” of old were petty tyrannies, nothing} dees Wad, tiaaier Olden Germany was the home of the secret tribunal, | _,Vorss, plamers are never Lisa the Vehmgericht, not of popular elections. | A large number of good natured Russia shows what happens when people get rid of tolk wear spate 7 fly wheel. autocracy. All airplanes have a . * . Havana wrappers are not made by Intoxication. Bolshevism. Veuenaabers Germany reels, even now. cee Autocracy didn’t produce unity in Germany. Jealousy, | Henry Ford's newspaper is to be a hatred, hedged Prussia. North hated South Germany. Fac- Son nypabhtinger hee Booey tionism developed in spite of verboten signs from Potsdam. ““” eon Now the harvest of disunion. | But praps, being a weekly, Henry's Germany always misgoverned alien peoples. Ex-| paper may avoid some of these, amples? Alsace-Lorraine, Bohemia, Poland, African col-| which we found recently in the onies, invaded territories. ¢ | “An organization is being organ Is the genius of government in the German mental | izea.” outfit? | “The following program will be fol We'll see, shortly. — 2 The affirmative side looks dubious. nea a ee If Germany can’t govern itself—then what? | “The urgency of this action was Tutelage? By the allied powers? As the aad Be bee are and have been tutored by the United States? ai ee een a Perhaps! Is that what Arthur J. Balfour meant when | bur ihe ee hatha Pipl gl he said the other day: heard of is the Germany navy. “There will be a great many states created in Europe| _ +: m's at for which the League of Nations must care. ican aah Ge ak pudhamate #6 Hor “Democracy is not a suit of clothes that can be put taxes, Too bad. But it's a great on at any stage of development. | deal pleasanter to pay them to Uncle | = No. Nor do autocracies teach and fit men sd beset el —— than to pay them lemocracy. | to, the kaiser for one, om user What has become of the old fash English World Speech joned folk who used to think Kitch ener was a prisoner in Germany? hearer schoolmaster! No doubt they are conferring with inglish is going to be the language of the world. those other 0. f. f. who thought Cas Even the Germans need it. (For large reasons, includ- en ken oo rontansary i al ing future culture and commerce.) | coffin. : English speech is made up of words adopted and) hye oe adapted from pretty nearly every language, living or dead.| * New York paper says, “women From the Philippine war it got “hike.” From +h thcecue is Grmea'ts Hig oe world war it gets “camouflage.” That's one way the| ...° 8 language grows. A Fairly Deep Hole It is the native tongue of the dominant peoples of the|, T* Cherry Ol! & Gas Co. are drill south of Superior, al 15 milew world today—the peoples to whom all other races look for) |nt> ecto -ebpat (Neb) mate ee ae coco | Journal. zanguage is the great bond of unity in any country. | . . “ America may study other languages for cultural or coup tyr Hy Oy Rick te tein commercial reasons. girls till they're past 80 But English is going to be first and foremost. — en reset Every citizen must have a chance to learn it. | 6 9 __ More schools! More teachers! Better Americgniza- Wall tion night schools! These are the needs of Now. U Let’s fill them. Schoolmasters to the front! | CHILD'S LAXATIVE Have You Done All? Look at tongue! Remove poi- What are you doing to keep Seattle’s honor flag un-| sons from stomach, liver marred? What are you doing to help the city fill its War and bowels Savings Stamps quota? Are you buying stamps for| Spey Christmas presents? Soldiers and sailors will appreciate them as gifts. Are you turning your useless metal to the Metal Shop, Fourth ave. and Pine st., in exchange for stamps? Have you bought all the stamps you can? Have you bought the limit for each member of your family, for each member of your firm? The quota must be filled by the end of the year. Roll Call Begins Monday The Red Cross roll call begins Monday. Every man and woman who believes in humanity should be enrolled in this greatest of all humanitarian organizations. Know- ing neither creed, race, color or territori: boundaries, the Red (Cross is entitled to support from everybody. To heal the wounded and to feed and house the needy Accept “California” Syrup of —that is part of its great mission. Wherever there jg) Fis oMly—look for the name Call- x ot Bagi, AR. fies f Shbear i, Si fornia on the package, then you suffering to be eradicated, wher there is pain te belsre sure your. child is havine. the allayed, there the Red Cross goes. And to be enrolled | best and oxt harmless laxative or as a Red Cross member will cost you but one dollar a yea r the little stomach, liver — rat . 3 Is, Children love its de The world is still full of a number o ‘ en » fruity taste. Full directions f Y ber of things, but Steven-| tor child's dose on each bottle. Give son's verse about the happiness of kings is antiquated. |tt without fear, | JUST ABOUT FOLKS ) BY REV. CHARLES STELZLE 8 re has & _ ; They're just ax rough and coarse yy e ve an they ever were, The war hasn't y THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, DEC, 14, 1918 TODAYS 4] | “We are Ready for Duty on the Play Line, Mother” ” Tired of Kings.” ‘ given them back to us with any of the slime sloughed off, they're just plain cusswords, and there's still the third commandment to be reckoned coke bh (‘Just @ line to let you know Ean of the fowers.”— “Thou shalt not take the namo Lieu William Allen, 111th KF) of the Lard thy Ged in vain, for aed will not hold him guilt “Bill” 4 that taketh Mis name in 1 vain.” Ju ph And the law on the statute books of the state or municipality against swearing has not yet been repealed Like most other reforma, the way to put them across ix to begin with lvem; and it will help mightily r in Instance if we start in to re “On the right side of the flowers.” | _the world by reforming our Sebati hink bie. Wekewnd pec “ee Chosen for salvation a Doenn't think God would abet é De “real ladies ever swear? Why no! That is, if you mean us TO MOTHERS! Keep your little pets physically fit, smiling, ing the shockingly bad language one o ‘ seematiiies heal Ges Gtrbal aertere eeereery tes feeling their best always, by giving Cascarets, the candy cathartic, But they have little words of thetr And kept topside the flowers occasionally. lh — a ae + | Children love to take Cascarets. They are sweet candy-like tablets, ianguage; as, for example, when they No, I ain't forgot the chaps | but just wonderful to correct the little white tongue, feverish breath, wae ieee: Chae ee end the ara EEE GAL pachaine, | sour stomach and colds. Cascarets gently ‘work’ the bile, sour fers I mean such werds as—but YOU They forgot to wonder | mentations and poisons from a child's tender stomach, liver and bowelg Uiat they axel you ve probably Wonder at our Jc ae | without griping or injury. Mothers who depend upon Cascarets as the children’s laxative save trouble, worry and cost. Each 10 cent A, no far as the SIN of ewearin, flowers! i ts santarana, lve seek aed ee Sy . “ih box of Cascarets contains directions and dose for kiddies aged one for seme people to SAY “fudge 1—Paul Decker, at the Moore. 2—Ruth Sinclaire, a year old and upwards. when they feet like as it is to t the Palace Hip. 3—Lew White, comedian at the Oak. akin say a regular cum-word 4—Kuth Eldridge, at the Pan. 5—Marjoric Lake, prim For, after all, it's how a man a donna, at Levy's Orpheam. 6—Cornetia Glass, with f FEELS, rather than what he SAYS the Wilkes Players, 7-—Theo Karte, who comes to th that will be counted against him, , © Met Wednesday | | | - MAKE RED CROSS MEMBERSHIP UNIVERSAL Nothing but the great conflict itself has so touched the hearts and imagination of the American people as has the work of the American Red Cross during the past four-and-a-half years. A magnificent ex- pression of the kindness and ideals of a great, peace-loving nation, the Red Cross came into | world prominence as soon as the hordes of the invading Hun poured into Belgium, bring- ing death, fire and destruction to a brave people who stood as a bulwark of liberty and dammed with their bodies the flood of oppression which threatened to overcome the world. The Red Cross was early on the battle ground of Belgium and its min- istrations tempered the horrors of war for the soldiers and, in the years of occupation which followed, hundreds of thousands of Belgians, French ‘ and other nationalities, in the sections of allied countries overrun by the Huns, were kept alive by the food and clothing furnished by the Red Cross, paid for by the millions of dollars flowing from the hearts of the American people. During the years of conflict when the United States remained neu- tral, the American Red Cross was the answer to the wide-spread insinu- ation that America was not interested in the perpetuation of world lib- erty. Everywhere the Red Cross followed the far-flung battle line, ministering to the wound- ed on the battlefields and in the hospitals; caring for the disease-stricken population of Servia and Bulgaria; sharing thé dangers and privations of the fighting men under a ban- ner of mercy which, to the shame of the Hun, was often disregarded and afforded no pro- tection to the workers or the wounded. Since the United States entered the war, the Red Cross has been the most powerful adjunct of our army and navy. Its work on the battle- fields, in the hospitals and the army camps, form a chapter in our na- tional history no less glorious than that of our boys on the battlefields and the seas. _ No wonder the work of the Red Cross thrills the hearts and imagina- tions of every American and makes all deem it an honor to belong to the organization which has shown to the civilized world the bigness, the un- selfishness, the devotion and the generosity of the heart of the American people. _ The honor of membership in this great organization, which is the highest expression of the ideals of the American people, is offered to all Americans in the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call, which opens Monday. lhe end of hostilities does not mean the end of destitution and suffering in the world. There are hundreds of thousands of destitute in the devastated sections of Europe who must be fed and clothed until the next harvest to keep life in their bodies. There are thousands of de- pendents of American soldiers and sailors still kept on duty at the front, who must be given the necessities and comforts of life due them from a grateful nation. The Red Cross must feed the famished and succor the diseased. The great heart of Seattle will respond to the roll call as it has re- sponded to all other calls during this great crisis in the history of civili- zation. All are asked to enroll their names as members of the Red Cross and wear the Red Cross button for 1919. The button will be a badge of patriotism, of service to mankind, of the ideals which have made America great among nations. | -Make Red Cross Membership universal. RED CROSS CHRISTMAS ROLL CALL, A. B. STEWART, State Chairman. Hl. F. OSTRANDER, King County Chairman (Paid for by special contribution of friends of the Red Cross.) |