The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 11, 1919, Page 6

ond-Class Matter May 8, 189% at whe Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress Maret 3 montha $1 1 ya78: per year. By carrier, ety, Se -+¥ Rave e State of Waal gee fer 6 months, or § Tt was a showdown for Americans, all right. It was also somewhat of a showup. It revealed various colors in various individuals. Some were red, fewer were yellow, but, thank God, ninety-nine per cent were ‘The American Girl We over here in the United States have become pretty acquainted with the American girl. We know her ter, mother, sister, wife and sweetheart. We love Ther, and knowing her as we do and loving her as we do, we are little inclined to listen with patience to Mlle. Gall, who has come from Paris to sing to us. Mile. Gall says sarcastically: ‘The American girl must ‘be the important member of the family.” As if that were| y one of us| ambition to be scorned! Of course, & rican men know full well that the American girl is the comes to our homes; from the hour she smiles up into proud daddy’s eyes. And, too, don’t we know that the an girl we lead to the altar and into our after ex ace is THE important member of a new family, just ting out upon the pathway of domestic life? And just as are we that mother is THE , importa ant member of the mily. Ask father or the sons! Indeed, Mile. Gall, if our girls were not the important s in our families that they are, some several million American homes wouldn't be half as happy as you now d them. land, have told us that your girls, the French girls, important members of your French families. In fact, rs of your families. Now, please don’t scold our American girls for being ‘important member of the family.” We just naturally "em to be “important” in our homes. Get acquainted With them, while you're in this country, and you'll obtain better understanding of their importance—to our homes our men. + why not give Mr. Bryan the job again? mping Bill and Suzzallo Dr. Henry Suzzallo, president of the University of fashington, former state chairman of the Council of De- and now adviser to Gov. Ernest Lister, owes it to the nd to the service men particularly—to define his clearly on the Lamping bill. It was the magnetic onality of Dr. Suzzallo which | = assage of the c ‘onner bill, or the Veterans’ ill, Tposecetine $500,000 for the relief of) “service men in whatever way may appear necessary. The Lamping bill differs from this measure in that it a compensation rather than a donation or a loan! 9 service men of this state. Dr. Suzzallo’s opinion has weight with the legislature. is no gainsaying that. Is Dr. Suzzallo of the opinion that our service men d by any committee? Or is he not? \ o start them in civilian life, or at least to give them « chance at decent readjustment? Or does he think it is better? In the opinion of The Star it is almost criminal to per- any service man to be in the position of virtually begging subsistence while he is passing into civilian life. the opinion of The Star. _ What does Dr. Suzzallo say? | Aman who is too good to I his new baby weighed 10 pounds. he Dandelion each golden ray in the rosette is a blossom in A weed? Urbanite. But imagine how empty and dull the roadside Would be without it. Sometimes we put our finger on one trait or charac- accomplished so much.” But it isn’t any more true than that ONE of the rays makes a dandelion. Up our life and upon the co-ordination of those habits will depend in great part our success or failure. sible those that are harmful, remembering that the older | a habit is, the harder it is to uproot. Surely we will have peace w ith G Germany if every inte r-| ested nation gets a piece of Germany. | Good for Carmen! The street car men stayed by their ca: today, and Seattle will remember that service. They refused to be made a tail to the kite of the rebel | leaders again, because they can now see, and see cle arly, that their true service to Mnapicas labor was to stick by the People. A year ago the street car men went on strike—a and by Seattle strike that was justified. Back of them then stood the| people of Seattle—in other words, public opinion. Naturally the carmen won their point. ; year ago and the present “strike-revolt,” and they don't 2 ee any more of the latter. e street car men today are standing by the peo sle| who stood by them in their time of need a year A " ; Flying the American flag and fighting for the ; American flag are two quite different things. Of course, you understand that the League to Enforce Peace will abolish two of our cabinet offices. i Safeguarding the rights of small nations is not more important than limiting the rights of great nations The ambition of one people to boss another is a great| help to the crutch-making industry. However, a fellow can still make a wry face. nt member of the fanrily from the very first day) Also, Mile. Gall, our boys who have come back from *™ boys seem to think that they are the most important! } Now that we have got around to his theory of the mat- “What's the idea of the cafe in the middie of the sidewalk?” “Well, it's like this, you come walking along and trip over a chair nd the waiter grabs you and before you know it he’s got your order.” Show Your Colors : which flag are you under? Show y Unaheath the ion't let Sed fer your bu boys Ov you owe ve vanquished the foe. e the right 1, OF might t of the Red Serpent's bite waste even an hour the red terror’s power h on the street defeat. hem up in a cell tures of hell otart Let's open ¢ Let's get their sou d be given some ready cash without questioning of any} the Lamping bi Does he think it is better to have every discharged) paper bas done m er, sailor, marine and others in the service, supplied |! h money which they call their own—just as they do their] or paper, I wish to wa | o the state of Washington, and, if possibie, I wish you to eall this fact |to the atten | give same due The Lamping bill can, and would, eliminate such cases, |ing thot ye UF much good in the past of everything, | make this appeal jto you. about anything else will tell | ever If you pluck a dandelion, you think you have a single|., er, but, in reality, you have from 150 to 200 flowers,| | trained man in event ¢ Well, maybe it is according to the farmer or the sub-| h!* « ic of a successful person and say, “That is why he : It takes many, a great many different habits to make . But, first of all in the study of habits, is to sort out! * the good from the bad. Then eliminate as rapidly as pos-|” warded | the | break They now know the difference between their strike of | Pac start, in this lif LETTERS TO TRIE EDITOR | DEFECT IN LAMPING BILL, | serve his government? I think he Editor The ar: In regard to newds it more so than the one who ur entered the service since war and nk ts of going back to the nization thru then any ¢ in my am speaking for hundreds of defect ton boys who rendered their service for their country and state and who are just as ae Dow pro ing bill. Why the boy who entered the ser who car ation. Know ne right © war was declared be more his due con k the same h your opinion of the ‘This bill, however, does not entitle ervice who fought PrP. 8 nd a res Washington month for the » nerved April 6 fovember 11 y about the boy the war, to m se eeeeeccccccccoecccss Easy to Make This Pine Cough Remedy I enlisted in with no reward for Is it right 1 not come in on th vat every mon in|! Headquarters for Suits, Coats and One-Piece Dresses 425 Union Street which he le ! {National Insurance of Health Is Now Favored (Staff Special “Experience shows that noed tt the mont, will not Insure even cho the pay 1 can solve thin will have to’ solve the » general problem of unemployment.” BRITISH DRAFT LAWS OF A ARR ' an alr program which | ¢y, au has indorser put It into force is part of the , and Willan G. MeAdoo has ylace her in the front ranks in| How can it be expect navigational jn American public has not yet caught up with its rare really living our governments take socialistic with full public approval 4 particular step on mo they will be aren't yet willing to n remains the r ome program, ar n drafted for submix ational convention r would have the govern nent control of tion. operating compa i & landing fee. Thin | lacking, he w private enterprise of | ment prepa of constructing press and passenger nervice, tute. NOW AILLED AS REPOOE TOE, hem all a square deal, as is \“Back to Soil” Movement Will Not Solve City Unemployment} BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE orit r ed on labor farms and t up the lodging Mille hotels, they would be | doing both th ifern and lities a good turn,” said a semi- ty journal published in cussing the unwillingness of the loyed to go to the countr this paper probably knows something about fashions in problem of the unemployed is quite another proposition. eral important consider » are usually overloo%ed in the aver? se scussion of this que factora both economic ana veiet in agsortis Iven ir f the dilettante ef pag the immigrant and the cify orer “back to the soll,” ua if « fact that very few of them came from the #oll may as well make up our minds that the ty will be compelled "| to wolve the problems of the unemployed, withou thought of receiving Hid from the country, excepting, perhaps, in ex dinary circumstances und for a limited period It in quite evident that with the decreased demand for manual labor n account of the une of machinery, the farmhand is driven to the eity, here he can find steadier er ent than that which is offered on the farm, which requires his ser ‘rr during the very brief harvest sea won, when extra hands are the farmhand, like the rest of ankind, must work th ot hibernate during the win- er when work on the farm i ‘ons in nome parts of the country, the , ve decreed that eventually most men in the city and there work out their salvation. 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