The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1918, Page 6

zi - PAGE 6 THE SEATTLE STAR 1307 Reventh Ave Near Union et PPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSTAPBRS Untted Preqs Association 1899, at the Postoffice at 1899, “atthe, Postoftic tof city, Bbc per month Feds State of Washington. 4. "ter ‘ ‘meatha, or $9.00 por year. No .Age Limit for Romance Rovance knows no age limit! | : . Barr at 87 writing a new novel | Amelia tried to write at 12, She met Romance at 19 when she married Robert Barr in Scotiand, At 40 she was producing ovels at high speed. | 5 _ 37 waes she has written 70 books of | fiction and hundreds of short stories. } It’s only a half-truth to say that the | young are rotnantic. | Their eldé rs are just as much so, } Why, pretty nearly every day you hear) of men of 70 roarrying girls of 50-—or even ww! younThere’s a romantic streak in the most and the best of us. ; The Americans are probably the great- iction-readers in the world. ¢ : ag Ficon feeds the romantic spirit—and feeds on it, too. | Yesterday's fiction doesn’t satisfy today’s taste, how- ever. es E. P. Rae’s slow-moving stories now put us to sleep. | We want speed in our novels nowadays. A meeting, a) glance, a wedding! And sometimes a triangle and a di- voree in the next chapter. Amelia Barr more than proves that romance knows no limit. She proves that you can go on working and thinking. You don’t need to dry up and grouch in al corner! Yale law sehool is opened to women. Perhaps a married professor has discovered woman's capacity for argument. America First It is time for plain speaking with regard to the League! of Nations and President Wilson’s struggle in its behalf. | Happily an Englishman has taken it upon himself to do the plain speaking, to get right down to the vitals of the) matter. He is George ovggie 3G labar editor and a member} of the British liament. He says: ; | “We Tiaboe} ‘are behind the president. If he fails at) the conference, there will be a period of competitive arma-| ments between Britain’and America which will make life nothing but a hell with the eventual collision of our two nations.” ; The situation with regard to the League of Nations is just this: Back of Wilson are the plain people of the world and their leaders without exception—in England, in France, in America. Against him are the conservatives, | the interest servers, the politicians, the diplomats and, others of their ilk. Some of them have made a living directly out of the old order and are selfishly interested _in its continuance. Others just naturally fear the new thing, whatever it may be. Still others are only jealous of er. Pin this country, with men like Lodge and Penrose and Roosevelt leading the opposition, and other good old wheel- horses of politics falling in line, one after another, the) issue becomes clearer every day. | There are some of these men who for reasons unstated not only are doing thejr best to block the League of Na-| tions and insurance against future great wars, but are advocating that under a continuance of the old system of unlimited armaments the United States take a second piace. | They will not get very far with that, whatever else they) may hope to accomplish. After all, we on this side of the) water are Americans first, not Englishmen or Frenchmen. | And our interest is in America first, not America second. | The American people—the common people who pay the taxes—are against world wars. They are for insur- ance against future wars and back of Wilson in his efforts toward a League of Nations that will provide such) But in a League of Nations they would not be content have America take an inferior place. Out of it there is no likelihood that they will be content with any similar position—as Roosevelt, for one, has advocated. Fashion tip: Wear your hair long for style and it passes as temperament; wear it uncut for economy and it’s considered lack of brains. . One e for U. S. To give the foreigner the full benefits of Americanism, we should give him our English language. Without knowing and speaking the language of the! country the foreign-born immigrant does not and cannot understand us on our institutions and ideals. Neither can we understand him. He can’t become a real 100 per cent American. He remains in thought a foreigner. Manitoba is setting in its public schools a fine ex- ample for the United States. | As a result of war developments, Manitoba discovered that its large rural population from north central Europe was not even partly digested. These foreigners were speak- ing their native languages, reading books and papers in foreign tongues, and learning their own languages in pub- lic schools. They are really foreigners, not Canadians, Manitoba is now remedying this condition. There is no compulsion about changing over the foreign-language schools of Manitoba. It is being done smoothly and thru a new policy of conducting all instruc- tion paid for by the province in English, the official lan- guage of the province. | Within a few years, children who otherwise would have grown up as strangers, can go anywhere in Manitoba! or all Canada and feel at home. One language means one people in the United States as well as in Canada. Frisbie’s articles will help us see this big fact. | | | Jane Addams says it would be “simply stupid” for her to run for mayor of Chicago. Or for Assn , No African Colonies for Us There is talk of this country’s being “compensated” for| its war sacrifice by being allowed to rule the former Ger- man colonies, or part of them, in Africa. jase pay of $60 « month my Nurse THE SEATTLE STAR Hirt S. Si NOv88 wy ee ee ; Ore om ( me, mt, ra Tells Why Nurses BY EVELYN OLIVER ! Tho Germany has laid down her arma and armies went | home, the women soldiers will still have to carry on for | are being a while. And, as conditions exist, they will serve with no more authority to en force the regulations they know to be necessary in théir hospital wards nan feminine persuasion. It is for the good of the service that they have asked (tho in vain) that nurses be given authority over hospital orderiies which will enable them, under the medical men, to enforce hospital orders. Nine thousand nurses are needed now for the American army alone. Tho nurses will enlist, as they have already enlisted, regardless of all other claims excepting those of home folk dependent on their earn ings or their personal care, and will accept the pay and the conditions of | their service as they find them, not because they think them just or good, but because there tx no alter native. To let soldiers suffer in not an alternative; tt is out of the ques tion Women will not do this, and the government knows ft: but it asks all nurses and women fit to be nurses to put aside their present occupa tions and, with ho distinction be tween those whose long experience and skill have won them responsible and lucrative positions and those whore qualifications are the least. to work without rank and for the aver. ‘They are expected to go into the army hospitals at home or abroad and work as hard an it is possible to work; living and sleeping, mean while, not with conditions somewhat softened, in consideration of their beg women, but in the same bar racks an the private soldiers live in ‘This is just what hundreds of nurses endured in France last winter, and if anything has since been done to ameliorate those condi tions, it haa been done by the Red Cross, and not by government reg ulation. ‘One doesn't mind the hard| work,” wrote one, “nor the cold, if only we could keep the patients com tortable and give them the care they need, but I do get desperate trying to take care of patients dying of pneumonia in a ward so cold that my own breath freeses. The orderly | Hopkins hospital unit Miss Oliver was one of the first American nurses in active service in France. She enlisted with the Johns and sailed dune 9, 1917, with the first con. tingent of Pershing’s crusaders. Miss Oliver w in active service as & ward supervisor In American } Hospital 18, France, until May, ! when she waa invalided home. who ie supposed to keep the fire going ‘soldiers on the job’; is asleep most of the night and refuses to be roused. He mys he doenn't have to take orders from a woman. I have no wity of making, him do aa I tell him but by complaining to the top sergeant. and the best he can do, even if he will do it, in to send me another orderly, probably worse than the first. So I have stoke the fires myself and do whatever | orderly doesn't do. Men hate orderly work sent to the wards often as punish ment for neglecting ® other duties One needs only to be a nurse to It’s Birthday of the World’s First Citizen BY THE REV, CHARLES STELZLE “A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country and among his own people.” they ciated—before the seen his unusual are big enough to show with flowers, or before the y FUTURE generation suddenly That was said by a wise man thousands of years ago, and it's as true today as it was then But Americans have proven a good many times that a man that he is appre has come to strew his gra of other lands have qualities, or even before those discovered them time Woodrow Wilson has fired the hearts of all Europe His birthday will be celebrated in a far more conspic vous fashion than Americans can easily im for the Europeans are great when it comes to fetes and festive occasions We're very much afraid of “slopping over’—we hate to show our emotion uropeans aren't ashamed of their feelings—and they'll giv Woodrow Wilson the STELZLE time of his life—if he'll let them of the battle in this country. And while all this is going on, let's show them that | America isn't a bit behind in honoring the man who has borne the brunt 7 ‘ A , President Wilson is recognized o# the originator of the phrase Nothing doing! ge : ‘ |“"Let us make the world safe for democracy!’ This phrase will go down The American people didn’t fight this war to win col-|in history with similar saying of great men in grave crise onies—the Philippines and Porto Rico are about as much) as we can chew without choking. _ And the American people don’t want any colonies that hae require a mighty army and a tremendous navy to de- ‘end. ° The jingoes and poaseicnal militarists may want col-| onies in Africa; it will give them an excuse for existence, But the American people don’t want imperialism, and if we judge the American people rightly, they won't have it! When Hun navy is officially sunk, gut Tirpite aboard? if ever, why not And a century from today Woodrow Wilson will stand out in Amer! even more prominently as a statesman and a world-leader than he does today. If he has made mistakes the world will forgive them. It will remem ber only the big things he has done. Probably no American will loom larger in European history than he Born in a humble Presbyterian preacher's home, he fought his wa to the greatest position occupied by any living man—for to be president of the United States is to be the world’s first citizen, Thruout his carec he has been an enthusiastic exponent of democracy This will be his chief glory avery loyal American will help celebrate Woodrow Wilson's btrthdny And the great lesson that should me home to very one of us today hs that down to the last man of us, we need to stand true and square to the high ideals given to us by the man whom we honor in our own land | as he is being honored by our friends and allies “over there,” Go much wo Accept a Garmer , Home From France, and are} of a} ATURDAY, DEC, 28, 19J8. pirthdap Gre ctings COOKE. sympathite wath yw) ayetne tm? uw kreets We hand it on Want Rank 2... eciate what the nurses have to end with, but men are not nurses, and nurses are not voters: so that the ordinary channels of righting the wrongs of public ser vants are cloned to the nursing corps of the army, and their service and their sacrifice remain high and hard and pure The need for continued work tx emphasized by all who know condi tions, On the very day the armistice waa signed, Lieut. Col. Brewer, head f the Presbyterian he 1 uni ust home from Fran ddrensi ng the New York eh r of the Red Crone 1: "One thing I want te impress on you, and that is that the magnificent work of is by no means over now Red Cross tho we are today celebrating the great victory New fields of service have been opened up for you: Reigium, Alsace Lorraine, nd all there ing for the American Ried ou cannot relax one min There in a year, at least, of tremendous work ahead wa. will preach a sermon Sunday morning entitled, COMMUNION SYMPATHY GREAT CANADIAN NIGHT All Canadians of the city are urged to be present, LIEUT. COL. PRINGLE of the Canadian Ex- peditionary Forces, will deliver the address A MESSAGE from the BATTLEFIELD Everyone ‘cordially invited. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Seventh and Spring LIBERTY BONDS MUNICIPAL AND CORPORATION BONDS BOUGHT AND SOLD JOHN E. PRICE & CO. Ninth Floor Hoge Building RABY TAILORING CO, Headquarters for Suits, Coats and One-Piece Dresses 425 Union Street ‘| north of Seatth Letters From | Soldiers | | Ending the War With the Yank | ame: : | y The Star are a number of Seattle boys in my reg’ ment. We are well and getting along fine, but you cannot imagine the dinappointment we had when lafter training for from four to 16 months as hard an possible, we were told we could not go acrone, and were to doing guard duty at debarkation points I think the boys who have train ed hard, bat been unable ‘to fight should have some =» of service medal, for instance, a silver chevron to be worn on the sleeve PRIVATE Wh 12th U. 8, Infantry, Camp Va, net Co. M, Stewart, APPRECIATES TOBACCO Editor The Star This evening we were insued a supply of cigareta, | which were contributed to your to | bacco fund. If all Americans knew how much sob re in France ap | preciate tobacco, they would be well pleased with whatever contributions they had made | 1 am a Washington boy myself, living at Monroe, some 40 miles} A large number | of boys in my outfit received some of The Star tobacco, and thru me wish to extend thanks. Assure | skeptics that all the money comes | straight to us in the form of amokes owe know Tobacco in Fi in an extreme luxury, and appreciated by the boys more than any other gift PRIVATE ¥. ¥. GERDER, France ) e 9 e ' , ” } Editor $ Mail “Well, Herb, watta ya gonna ¢ , now the war's over? ; “Dunno—get 1 guens “Some guys'er just natural b n fighters.” Editor The Star: Ali my life 1!~ te) of aaa: RES ee have been listening to a lot of stuff! about the terrific brutality of the prehistoric caveman. In an issue! a hare-brained dingrace to her sex -|named Edlin, who deserted her hus-| ‘band and children to take up with| la husky and probably brutal Italian! - HEAR YE! HEAR YE! |who, she says, was fierce and say- A WORD FROM "Tie Rotter tobe 0 Setenill Jage like a cave-man JOSH WISE Thas to be & ooleien male Weil, right here I am going to take up the cudgel for our much. | — mig ae Who keepeth clean both day and And} ‘ night, I wish to state, incidentally, that 1 thats always roth well his bit the Flu to fight know as much about cavemen as any other living individual, Mra Who disinfects his domicile, Edlin not excepted. Both authors! eee Fears no germ that bodeth fil. and artiste have exhausted their in j Instead of lambasting President |menuity in depicting the brute na-| wison on every page for daring to ture and ferocity of the caveman, | Europe to gy the sort of Ko eapecially in his sex rela how| neace we want, Life in a recent is jhe took to mate the cave-woman by| .16 tambastes him on every page ex jforce, dragging her by the hair or/ cent the editorial page and there any other old (prehistoric) way | cuameeendie. tiae A at would Mrw. Cave-woman Ape Fi be doin, i that time? n asd ve poy wena 22 yates "|. With 698 suits of clothes, Herr : “e0"| Hohenzollern might start a second They who seeketh much the crowds, Aideth him who selleth shrouds, to For he that knoweth of pure air, Doth daily scorn the Flu Bug scare, Who eateth not the best of food Doth languish in a sickly mood, to believe, that the female of that| He that smileth at his cold, |age wax either weak, tame rues | See ee Fun by @ S€'/ 1, prone to leave his poe mold. tise uae Cobaaees wen Seamanel sir are Who stayeth nigh while oth In strength ‘and’ diapeaition, “Mre,| _ Bernetort? as foretgn minister wint| Wn? Cousis nigh wile - * certainly be foreign to the Huns }Cavéwoman would be anything DUt | vost interests. Hath not the common sense of |she-beartike tn her disposition? aoe | cheese, } If the caveman was what most) “German people frantically inter-| rorsooth, the boob that scorneth | writers believe and what his Lones| sted in politics.” The rest of the doubt, |prove he was, a kind of croms be.| World has already been driven |tween « gorilla and a modern hu-| frantic by their politica man in make-up, then the female of| oe the specie was no doubt ax #trong,| President, President, where have you! |alno an combative, for on her would been? Hath soon his passport written out. Who weareth of the cotton tree, Inviteth angels in to tea, jequaily rest the protection of the) I've been to London to visit the king. | Who feareth neither cold nor cough, young President, President, what did you Soon, oh, soon, will shuffle off. | There {# absotutely no reason to! there? | believe that the cave-women were|I helped give the Germans a deuce of Who payeth not clean kerchief bills, in any manner mistreated by their a scare. Casteth off his worldly ills. husbands. On the contrary, I have leis no doube, if the truth was known,| A news head reads: “What Ameri. Who «purneth all this timely lore, those old cavemen were badly hes-|can Women Are Doing.” What Knocketh loud at Peter's door. pecked. That Italian appealed to the Edlin woman in a way her hus band did not, it in true, but if she she her aren't they? ' —Raymond W. Edwards. had any shame in her make-up would have kept that part of to herseif LW story CALLAHAN, PARIS, Dee. I have not re- | signed, but I expect to quit and re |turn to the United States as noon as |1 can clean up my affairs here, as I intended to do before [ came to | Burope.” George Creel, head of the committes on public information, |said today. | | | | | | OTTAWA, Dee. Before 6,000 | wild fans, the Ottawa hockey septet won from the champion Toronto Welcome! Now, all the ships which flit the foam’ And bring the soldiers with ‘em |team here, Thursday night, 5 goals Are roared a hearty “Welcome home:” « In music, rhyme and rhythm — ——~ But let me sing in verse or prose, | Nor think the lines a loss, Temes rer 36,408.00 Another “welcome home” for those | v4 X% a } Who didn't get across. Gu “They also serve who stand and wait,” (Tar mer ‘Tho battle-unanointed BAR 10c a 7] | And none the less deserve, whom Fate Doomed to be disappointed jof BARS a Not only those beyond the brine “Once you try, agnin and again you'll bey” | Have shared reward and loss ss Here was another “fighting-line” FREE DOCTOR Which didn’t get across. Ex-Government Physician So you who stayed this side the sea, FIRST AVI or And nobly did your parts. WASHINGTON ST. Here's welcome to your three-times-three! And welcome to our hearts! For, tho you sent no horse nor foot, Your work was not a loss |< ee ee % or You didn't GET, but helped to PUT, St.Paul Stove Repair & Plumbing Co. The whole big war | Firebacks, linings (Copyright, 1918, N. EB. A) and repairs for all — —onclenenegeate aie a ee | + “A great deal of attention hae Community Song | been given to music as an effective is fy factor in military training,” #ay® and connected, ee - » Secretary of War Baker in his annual report to the Congress 608 PIKE ST. |' Main 875 | This,” he says, “has been done thru mass singing in camps and om munities, singing on the march as & physi und source of regimental and recreational sing the organ stimulus competitive company singing. ing in soldiers’ free t cheer | ization of qua ts, clubs and | pany and regimental to ald the camp song leaders. Song lead | red to the camps as civillam aids to the commanding officers.” LAST APPEARANCE Now that the war is over, what Metro} olit we going to do with these 58 , And what are we going to 40 Is there anything These 62 song leaders. are. cull more blessed than = 1 will be, owing to peace, They . did their duty bravely during the war r et ar all they helping the father- |reconstructed? Or shall we keep them to lead us in s we mareh less children of Jout of the factories at eventide and dash for the street cars on the way home? | | And will “our boys" keep right on singing as they go after they come home? Well, that depends—on us. musical training, wouldn't it? == [on singing? It would be a pity waste all that Can we make them happy enough to kee? neetbeaen eee Gaerause < —————— sé ‘ak es ck, eb eka oe ee