The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 22, 1919, Page 6

As Second-Claan Matter May 8 1 Beattie, Wash. Ac Nt Congreas Marek 3. LN7® Ry mail ov Beal gi tnt: i montha, $1.50; @ month ington, Outside the state, pe State of per year, By carries, city, cit for @ months, or Dally by The st enchanae '~ Before all the heroes of the war, decorated or Orated heroes, we first bow before Corporal Harold W. Rob- 'erts, late of San Francisco. Roberts, in a charge on the is, Was driving a tank which slid into a water-filled ' shell hole. But one of the two-man crew could escape. Rob -erts pushed his companion out to safety, saying, “Well, : of us can get out, and out you go!” Roberts remained _ his man was not a war hero only. It is even possible that he did not even feel that he was sacrificing for his coun or its great cause, “It would make no difference to cause ‘ally or Hun which of the two drowned in that tank like Fat. To Roberts, it meant simply a choice between his life ind that of his poor companion and he said to the latter, in “Go back into the beautiful world, to mother, friends, or sweetheart, to honor and life as to all the joys and opportunities of the future. death, for your sake.” “Greater love hath no man.” te so grand a soul! But, we love best what this hero actually did ing to die for his friend: “Only one of us can get out, and out you go!” It is a great heart scoffing at death’s terrors. It ness and nobility, unadorned, expressing themselves. © is the plain declaration of a great personality. It is a t being giving the lie to nature’s vaunted first law, ervation. of the super-great by the life and words of the Naz- say in pres “Ye gods! if of such stuff our corporals were made, the man in all this war affair is that same kaiser who| ft for safer quarters when our boys approached! Upon General Pershing's recommendation, congress is dead Corporal Roberts the highest military decoration. weakly and indifferently must cross or ribbon tell the h of this man’s heroism and fice! Our his- never fail to honor that Nathan Hale who regretted he had but one life to give to his country. They will not ition this California hero who had but one life, and gave! to a mere companion in arms. “Only one of us can live. | ‘die! of How many of the great ones exploited by history would the will and the soul to decide as did Corporal Harold, s? France . America went into it for a principle. get principal and interc st. mble Shop Needs You ‘Now that you are thinking of spring housecleaning, why make a thorough cleanup and send some things to the Cross Jumble Shop? Anything that has money value ill be welcome, but clothes particularly are needed at this Clothes, clothes, clothes, is the demand of the steady Sam of customers who have found the way to the little ) at Fifth and Virginia, and incidentally have discovered j¢ good bargains it offers. pany garment in good trim, for a man, woman, child will delight some frugal shopper and represent a sub- donation to the Civilian Relief of the Red Cross, work is so important in the reconstruction period. Do a know that during the war period the Jumble Shop and Toom maintained an average of $10,000 a month in receipts for this patriotic fund ?—and now, in equal- Eeritical period, it is not the intention of the enthusiastic | to lose sight of that ambitious objective. Books, bric-a-brac and silver, anything, in fact, that is , either practically or artistically, in the modern will help to replenish depleted shelves. According | ladies in charge, there is seldom an unsalable article from the public. Mrs. Florence Hyatt and Mrs. Fred Harvey are the, st volunteer shopkeepers and will gladly receive sum- to call for clothing or other donations at any time. tt 4512 is the telephone number which brings the Red | truck to your door. Diplomats have a robust hunch that charity begins Gov. Hart No little responsibility for the reckless appropriation of ie funds for is due to Acting Gov. Hart. As-lieutenant governor he the committees in the senate and it is a matter of now that he snubbed some of the most conscientious servants in the committee appointments. Now, with a new mantle of glor Louie Hart struts forth With what result? To veto measures that are questionable? Already we phear apologies for Hart’s contemplated signing of an appro- tion of $100,000 for an irrigation project survey that to iy the least is a gamble. But we hear nothing of his intentions with regard to!’ Lamping bill, the most sane, the most beneficial, and the}, est piece of legislation this session has had before it. We hear nothing from him on that bill. Maybe he’s contemplatink “economy” there. If he is, he’d better hesitate. Let him clean his skirt first of armory extrava s and such like before he econ- omizes at the expense of the men who fought and were ready to fight for the | A. * The kaiser avoided the wicked cootie, but not the wicked flee. The peace delegates have the itch. face indication of an itch for colonie 8. Probably a sur- All good men go to Heaven, ot the others go to H—er, that is, Holland. The Huns relied on mass formation, and now they rely on mess formation. Efficiency is not without honor, lative body. save in a legis- Bill of Potsdam doubtless think awful, but suspension will be worse. this suspense is The decision to outlaw the submarine simply con- firms its original status, All Europe ash the map. is an‘ “Okeh, W. W.” after it draws And how will the profes asional prohibitionist get a living? . aN wai ere ae ae | toa s One of my | States dubious enterprises by the present legisla-| e Great American Home! ! 7) WELL, MILDRED, ASK ZARINMOND To Come. ut Tree staeral’ Y To come-lmust FINISH ‘Those pire see. undee- | only | soldier of the great} I will} How could mortal hands | | THE GEORGE WAsHieToN BIRTHOAN PARTY — » It is fruition of the seed placed in the} yee A Regular Man ROSES By Rev. Charles Stelzle : and it ten't r orgs Wash. , pir not depends upon to th 5 This is about roses, Whether nl a which make ua long to get srliiiinia the reader moat cherished mem Tione Show ories in that one day I called and that during nh that 1 sthea az | told me a number ais pa. ho Te thet we ® such an informal way that I was ‘ame . eos woo quite meked t nd myself half the sitting on his big flat-topped desk ceived a Jolt” thls Now 1 be { @ letter trop tambeall ede prominent ronarias Nam Taft Just As &@ member of the ram I need that be penmaities ands F the de- ' " am not | was always ¢ starch re him out to Hy f that » regular week: 4 that eve sat and t hat George Want w as buen an reat of he liked to like the be com: | > * SS that ott hin! ¢ just 4 and talked t common, everyday things other kind of a m could r tent United nchiet as close to him. » human. ne ree of rone he took him have at men are alwa approachable. Tha why they are great Historians have ing out characters out the : romarians who plants, un ard and nays West nd will view with un Can 1 de sual ones, or unusual Tose he i ite mome of them a 4 Way of amoott en re try t and the that make world ¢ many Eastern to honor | come to us this seanor just an unusual rose plant good in the linen in great nor the commar They fratitie ¢ the « t? Is your rose garden What on a pinna to be @ sort ¢ # disco Will it be something t frienda wh If you have or hi » call Rainier 7a man him out uman? hem kin t rent And #0, today, I George Waah re ant ngton as a man who have to nar man, who made earth human falling». od h rest of us lose to the ~ Ane tory, may f ask you LI6W and let me kno Last season I apent a week in Ta na, and was much impressed wit fact that practically the gar or laws, wherever I went, were cared for. No, they their war work net back of the Doesn Ww pre pring we now to get ready and allbw ern friends that we have the soit 1 soul for roses and their beau We writern may f expect many of who will vi nd | SOME As ED coast, Can we t other Wee ettion? ic The Queen City of the West look the part without her 4 Tome a. Rlowes in every gar MES EDGAR Bi BLAIR. WANT COIN FOR They say he chopped the cherry tree not And could not tell a lie, From which they argue, aa you That Washington was “dr | He found his little hatchet handy : future cherry brandy he fought Ind with Hradde again) hey sy k's men And cracked the | Which argues (as you He was against tt And #0 today, if he « | Would be against the | Reda.” 114 speak, Bolsheviki Nine business firm: Thursday to Ju in the United States for permiasion to file beln against the mahip Maru presented pe. he Jeremia district that he was first in war, ferred | They say From which it is That he was A bad Third, Descended fro for $38, Katyel 1 the Far East to He had r One GIRLS RAISE MONEY mi rom descendanta, endence say that he w ) British tax-effr rained, fr A newer breed of country, Foreseeing they'd need such a one to beat the Hu The t put up ome | they offered him a disregarded t kings rown p saw tha | And soon would be Perbaps he Accorded to the were coming down discarded the higher modern A sought place A “Mother” Sent This If the sweetest little kiddies Act like old and crabbed Biddies, | From the pain that’s in their middies— * | Cascarets! 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Remove poi-! f sae m of| LOSS OF GOODS) inter- | Japanese | ern | 1) fornia find al Lint get home Superior (Wis “sie iF FS George Washington BY WOODROW WILSON PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (Taken from the life life of George Washington, copyright, 1896, by Harper & Brothers, with special permission from the publishers) in Virginia as commonwealth, A worD FROM WISH jot uy th’ smart leaders keep Jookin’ behind nee if they're goin’ 6————— in th’ direction th’ Change of time crowd w aned from being to. boasting breed of COURSE YOU CAN GUESS HOW ME TOPSEY TURNED t ‘The snowfall hereabouts has beer ery great in the two rd of Baturday night t of all. Quite ined the w#tir of growing life and became @ etur ffairn, a colony and of whe her « gen men, merchant and tateamen, nid , as upon other men ar the a touch ot mation nty-nix John Wa ifordshire and took at the first the Washingtons had be untry gentlemen of comfort worry ble entate upon the John had be ten Lawrenc and Lawrence had begotten Augustine John had thriftily taken care to see is offapring put a way to prom per at the very fipst. He had quired & substantial property of his own where the land lay very fertile banks of the Potomac, and pemiden, b thr mar e 4 very close connection with # n - that had thriven there fore him. His sons and gr tho they mlackened a little «he had wet th in his energy at the out none less substantial upon the extat had left them, abated nothing of the dignity and worth they had inherited, lived sim- and kept thelr p of respect the parish and state FOURTH IN HIS FAMILY 4 Wars came and went without die Distares of the first presidents turbing incident for them, as the French moved upon the borders of polities from over sea; and then long peace set in, equ les Without incident, to stay a whole generation, while good farming machinery of on | Quietly forward, and politicians at home and in the colonies pi shingle to start in, “nother move in their game. It was in the midst of this time of poise, preparation, and exp rge Washington was born, on the nd of February, in the about ten in the morning,” William Gooch, gentlest of Mi pt being governor in Virginia. He came into the world but spacious homestead on Bridges’ Creek, fourth son, ff id, of Augustine Washington, and of the third genération from Jo Washington, son of the one-time rector of Purleigh. The homestead stood upon a green and gentle slope that fell away, 4 but at a little distance, to the waters of the Potomac, and from it ¢o be seen the broad reaches of the stream stretching wide to the Mary! peyond. 1 flooding with slow, full tide to the great bay below, The spot gave token of the quiet youth of the boy, of the years of - ful peace in which he was to learn the first lessons of life, ere war @ the nging fortunes of his country hurried him to the field and @ transte up lands on atmoreland, in were had « number of | I in town ¢ » tried to ur time William ‘Topne w fren and creamer ) Loade | n here the chonen ‘There wecepted model. he had, t the When Mins the cedar pant to high winds prehead wrink board—t the | in and take was a furey gaz 1 like a wash » it mtart- | inp the into the ‘wo-thirds of o — and the other th rd of wort Like chunes the two-thirds of sleep, m ¢ fixed with 2 finish up with worrying another one following They always start out little, and grow bigwer as they roll along. Worry has us all by both ears, Wher plu along and think our wor more they wh waver, plain we are over we ng 8 wor there y' are There are think |" that because they would a lot of men wh hs reer by a very scant Washington ‘a cast for his . Augustine Washington, his father, lacked neither the) means to set him handsomely afoot, with as good a schoolii and in affairs, as was to be had; he would have done and provident man should do to advance his boy in had he lived to go with him thru his youth WISE, PROVIDENT MOTHER ame for him before be could see the lad out of boyhood, | He died April 12, 1743, when he was but 49 gears of age, and before | ree was 12, and in bis will there wag of course, for George only yunger son's portion are is consider Fortunately Mary Washington was a wise and provident mother, inday fish woman of too firm a character and too steadfast a courage to be diemayed will De by responsibility, She had seemed only a fair and beautiful girl when hibition law. | Augustine Washington married her, and there was a romantic story Res. lot how that gallant Virginian sailor and gentleman had Mterally been thrown at her feet out of a carriage in the London streets by way of intro too, was a visiting stranger out of Virginia. But she | ular capacity for business when the romantic days ey were over rge was kept at school until he was close upon 16; but there was on-time for visitings, Mrs, Washington did not keep him at trings. When he was 14 it was proposed that he should be ex, a8 #0 many lads were, no doubt, from that maritime provines; 7 » prudent mother preferred he should not leave Virginia, and the 7 on as before—the schooling of books and manly sports, ned to ride—to ride colt or horse, regardiess f training, gait y lad learned to ride—to ride colt or horse, regardless of training, galt | t in the pasture. Every lad, black or white, bond or free, knew to find and how to take the roving game in the forests. And young)® n, robust boy that he was, not to be daunted while that stron t sat in him which he got from his father mother alike, took hig \uceship on horseback and in the tangled woods with charact and ardor. He was, above all things else, a capable, executive boy. mastery, and he relished acquiring the most effective means of actical affairs. His very exercise-books used at school ga’ fit They were filled, not only with the rules, formulae, diagrams, Je xercises of surveying, which he was taking special pains to learn, at the |advice of his friends, but also with careful copies of legal and mercanti rs of exchange, bills of ale, bonds, indentures, land war. rants, leases, deeds and wills, as it ne meant to be a lawyer's or a mer- chant's clerk It would seem that, passionate and full of warm blood as he was, he conned these things as he studied jthe use and structure of his fowling- plece, the bridle he used for his colts, his saddiegirth, and the best way of mounting. He copied these forms of business as he might have copied Beverley’s account of the way fox cr ‘possum or beaver was to be taken or the wild turkey trapped. and at last the end came, was ready, On the 12th of 1799, he was chilled thru Js and cold rain and upon him as he went t the farms, He spent neerfully, listening to a; but went to bed thering hoarseness and ‘oke in the night sharply ey ¢ firnt< WHY NOT GET MARRIED? 1, 19 years old, wants house work to do; must be treated as one the family, Please «ive your hene nu D. ME own Adver n Dayton raise @ beard sen farmers both in books that world ou a liberal But the en New York's ing at cintat 1 that will And wt under ma next summer the 5 th Germany ace at deprives i Ge ample t anybody |» refuses to vaca’ 4 PERHAPS IT WAS ALSO HER BIRTHPLACE Demaria Knobe, free | mov oman's club ub Wednee native ¢ been bor oma w Dayton «F Kno! Ind Vome He lo CHILD'S LAKATIVE =: sons from stomach, liver and bowels n he cember e keen wi and Accept “California” Syrup of Figs only—look for the name Cali- ou the package, then you are sure your child is having the est and most harmless laxative or physic for the little stomach, liver and bowels, Children its de- licious fruity taste, Full directions for child's dose on each bottle. Give it without fcar, ove REV. M. A. MATTHEWS will preach a sermon Sunday morning, entitled, THE GOSPEL. IN THE HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES In the evening he will discuss the subject, CHRIST DEMANDS ECONOMIC JUSTICE Come to the Song Service at Led by Walter Jenkins, FINE MUSIC. A Welcome for All, First Presbyterian Church Seventh and Spring Mr. stricken in his throat Physicians came almost at dawn, but the dise was already beyond their control. Nothing that they tried: uld stay it; and by evening the end had come. He was calm the day thru, sa in time of battle; knowing what etided, but not fearing it; steady, noble, a warrior figure to the last; ind he died as those who loved him might have wished to see him die A portrait of George Wash. ington by Remington Peale, showing the “father of his country” in civilian garb of the early republic times. Dangerous “D’s” P ERMIT me to show you what can be done for you in the way of restoring your mouth to health and beauty. At least, let me tell you what is necessary, how I propose to do the work, and what it would cost you. Remem- ber that Delay and Decay are twin brothers and arch enemies of Health and Beauty—dan- gerous “D's”! Check them both at once! Come and see me tomorrow, but don’t wait until to- morrow to make up your mind. It takes but a moment to make the appointment. 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