The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 14, 1919, Page 6

Pea | She Seattle Star i, out of city ANE 6 months, te of Washingt So per month, $4.5 per year, by carr YY THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1919. | EDITORIALS — “|| fgg, |! On the Issue of | S| Americanism There Can Be No Compromise A : d’s Best Little Old Tonic Hey, you tonic takers and generally dissatisfied folks, | to this! When month after month you look back over the pre- 12 months and find that you are no better off now you were a year ago—either in savings, in incre tality, in prestige, or in the number of your frienc , ir standing in the community—then that doleful feeling ‘won't come off, lays its heavy hand on your cringing der and pushes you down and down until you feel as fl as an ant looks at the wrong end of a telescope. And try to get over it by taking medicine. Bat, say, when you can open the book of your life on the day’s page put your finger on some definite in which you have accomplished something since 12) ths rolled by—when you can tell the world fair that} gotten ahead, done something that you hadn’t done Months ago—then the blood races thru your veins and| off sparks as it leaps ahead, the sun jazzes ‘em for your particular benefit and the whole world smiles ows and invitingly beckons you onward and upward wther afield into the Land of the World’s Doers. fomplishment! Doing something—no matter how ing ahead! ‘That's what puts pep into the and makes the old human system sing with joy. | pleasure of seeing the home team win, or pulling | t flush out of a three-card draw, or anything like} into the shadowy flicker of insignificance com-| th the heart-rousing joy of knowing that you've] achieved something. ccomplishment—that’s the greatest nerve and health | mental tonic in the world! Senator Lodge complains that our participation in the league would benefit Europe more than America. ‘So did our participation in the war. But can we refuse to do good for ourselves because it will do the other 4 fellow more good? a : the Sun Into Your Soul “One time we were tramping the forests in search of r When none came and we wished to return to camp) bdiscovered that we were lost—completely “turned| ” ! en we recalled reading one time, “Light Is Life—! always grows on the north side of the tree trunk removed from the rays of the sun.” | We set about looking for moss and sure enough it IS on the same side of each tree. With this as a guide, In’t take us long to find our way back to the place! ce we came. } » But, the point we wish to make is that the moss would| OT have been on the north side of the tree if it hadn't impossible for the sun’s rays to reach it. ss thrives on death. And, death is always found in} wake of the sunless path. | ' The more sunlight there is in your life, the more you "The freer you are from moss and the things that | without light, the BETTER man or woman you are. 2 the sunlight you can into your sleeping and ours. es The Monroe doctrine protects South America from aggression of Europe. The league doctrine will pro- everybody from the aggression of everybody. Bumps You Get le were watching a little two-vear-old boy climb up a is children are wont to do. The first two times ried it, he fell back kerbang, and hit his head a re- amding whack. But he never uttered a cry—just got up went at it again. That boy will succeed in life unless some friends per- in “making a big fuss” over the little fellow every he gets a bump. the time we are laid in our crib by the nurse to the undertaker reverently puts us in our last rest- we are bumped about in the world. es the bumps are spiritual; sometimes they whichever they are, the important thing is—keep man or woman who stops to shed tears will d to the side of the road by those coming up who ash on even when their eyes are blinded with tears. _ And, our reaction to bumps will depend a great deal the way we are taught to receive them as children. They tell us that the lower class has declared a dic- | tatorship in Bavaria. Is it possible that there is a lower class than the one that was in power? ting After Shacks he council is preparing to legislate the garage shack of business, owing to.the hazardous fire risk entailed 5 i ohis is the right precautionary attitude to assume: city ought even to go further. Shacks, whether for garage purposes or otherwise, now disgrace the downtown section of the city, and pease the fire danger, ought also to be considered, recent fire which took the lives of a dozen or in a downtown rooming house, was due to the tol- of officials in permitting “shacks” to be used for ohers it the fire department have frequently point- i dangers of such structures, both in rooming houses frame store shacks. The time is well at hand when more stringent precau- are essential. i | As soon as the balky senators find out which way the people are going, they will get in front to lead the A > Your Skypiece * Some wise man said, “If you come out of the little end! the horn, pick it up and toot it.” That's what naval rs did when two destroyers, the Zulu and the Nu- hit mines. The Zulu got its front half knocked off. Nubian got its hind half knocked off. Engineers in dock plated the two halves together and zingo! They anew boat. Nice work? Righto. Use your skypiece! Poor old China is frantic in her approval of one of the 14 points about the right Fy ie aia! | approve or veto the economic arrangements proposed by another power, but in her heart she knows that Japan won't see that particular point, and that we won't make @ point of it. a Gustave Noske says we should not mistrust Ger- “many on account of her present military plans. We eT : don’t. We mistrust her on account of her past military There is seldom need of, force if sufficient force cir | might, right Auction A) Ane vo Arrwe f Ba, ge A alhg s ( EX ttow very rue Awour same put stu Be Tu BE GLAD veverres,|) Yo exe You my beam, || ALL 1 CArt wecare |\ AsstsT You J me veey 5 tures AT CARDS | ( te \ ) a" | N > i] { { dort T vou Asm Me To | see weeme You Ray suc| j} A werocerur Game !t eect Yo Youve Bean SET AD oFteret-] WHET! You | Ave J [rays s HAVE ! 1 Pon’ Tr Pose 00 PLAveS ~/ Le Al asa ¢ SAILORS MADE TO “SCAR"? Editor The Star free speech, we, the crew of the U. 8. 8. Rose taking this opportunity to inform you and the general public, the conditions under which we live, while serv ing our country The enlited personnel of the course, poor people, but however humble our was in civilian life, we were at leant usedoto plenty of wholesome food and sanitary living conditions. Do we get these here? We do not “Seabbing” on Civilians There in, no doubt, money appropriated for our ben efit, but the trouble im, it is too fur from Washington. to ux, We have not been “over there.” but that is our misfortune, not our fault. We enlisted to fight eg the kaiser, and instead, we are scabbing on clvilian workers We are working in the lighthouse service for from $35 to $50 per month would be paid from $8040 $100. In addition to this please remember that civilians will, and do, demand decent living and working conditions Now that the war is over. charged? Is it bees A WORD FROM JOSH WISE Nobody gits his ex- ercise choppin’ his are army and navy neighbor's wood. WHY A DERRICK 1S USED AT THE WHITE HOUSE DINNERS China fanciers are praixing the selected for the china of the pres lishes have the with a thin gold band of 48-tons Telluride (Col) Journal. . clean, around th Great Britain hax sold 47 German U-boats to funk | dealers, At last the Hun subs are to get into a scrap! eee PLAINLY THEY WERE NOT EX-FIREMEN ‘The fire department was caliéd out last night to distinguish a car of burnin h and I They were called out yexte: Unguish @ «mall blaze in the lower part of the city.—Ashland (Ky) Ip dependent. labor for the Here, on x in a hold . below the waterline, where day light never penctrates, and with very little ventilation Of course, we do not expect home cooking here, but we do rve better than “hash” for breakfast, made of seraps a week old, and, in many cases, of insuf. ficient quantity. As the public is no doubt aware, all complaints by enlisted men must be made thru the cammanding officer, and to go over his head is to invite a court martial see We don't know what Sweden is going to axk of the peace conference but if she any kind of claims we're going to call the attention of the confer ence to the matches we've been getting for the past two or three years. presents eee Milton Joshem is a hotel ford, N. J. proprietor in Ruther THE VICAR'S BREAK A vicar was invited to dinner at the house of one of the leading men in the town. At the dinner table he was placed opposite a goowe. The dady of the house was seated on the vicar’s left Seeing the goose, he remarked: Shall I sit #0 close to the goose?" complaint would get past the sible for at least men who are respon 4 part of this, What can we get out of officers who are little more than high school students, who wear nose glasses, wrist watches, talk Bomtonese? It might be possible to secure conditions, if the proper parties could be r is words a bit equivocal, he turned round to | but we have more faith in public opinion tha dy an id, in & most inoffensive tone: | the men “higher up. cuse me, Mrs, Blank, I meant the roast one."— c. London Tit Bits. ' STITES. L, ROB B, STEPE W. BALL *. 8 MOB! B. MUE G. WOLVE Fireman. see SETTING HIM RIGHT Judge--I understand that you prefer against this man? Grocer—No, sir. I prefer cash, and that’s what I | had him brought here for.—Pearson'’s Weekly. charges SOLDIER A Editor The Star vocational training course at the tional bureau. Can you assist me to locate a home or estate to care for, where, for my services in my spare ume. have good city references A SOLDIER. Editor's Note—If able to assist this man, write (do | not phone) to “A Soldier, care of The Star.” FOR WORK IT SOUNDS SONABLE This tractor stops imi y upon striking im. | movable objects.—Denve Rocky Mountain News eee Eggs are being sold by the pound in a Weat Vir I can se ginia town. If we ever bought exes by the pound | we'd expect to find not les# than two in even dozen filled with shot. eee A WAR DILEMMA is in an awful fix.” What's the matter?" “Kvery army fellow she's engaged to got thru with out @ scratch and i# coming home soon to marry her,” —-Baltimore American, BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE Our Town I say our town is a pretty good town And nobody needs to doubt it, And the item it lacks to cinch {ts crown | Is a poet to tell about it. | Our town has good earth under its feet And a good, blue sky above it, It has work to do, it has friends to meet, And I know that some of us love it. arth to pound on the door for the room mt and dam ages, we've gotta do some flashy gable work to ex tract the wrench from the cogs, and get the old chugger whizzin’ on both poles agaln. Mrinstanee, Its arms are strong and its hearts are light, Popular Music, And its heads are not all bone, Kid Mars put a] Wor some, tho you may not believe it quite, martial kink in Are almost as good as your own. it and left it flat. | And if there's a goal which we may not reach, It learn to be happy without it, » Want the song and we need the speech x | Of the poet to tell about it. dd mouse. ank, Hun ta get away from rhymin ‘acy with ¢ Why, what would you know of the towns of Greece, | Or the doings of ancient Rome, If Homer had choked on his little piece, Or Virgil had knocked his home? So when our performance ix staged complete, And we're aching to sing and shout it, Let's be sure to reserve one front aisle seat For a poet to tell about iv ‘The old cat is coming back with the same old yow! ew life. Get set for another fusillade of stone hern ditties, Y'know. “Grandpap's While the Flapajcks Coo Miss My Mississippi Saturday rack Waiting in Old Alabama’ instead of civilian egews, who | are we not dis: | I am a disabled soldier, taking a government voea- | ure free rent for myself and wife? 1| ECSTASY By DK. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, b mimic world, and these old cone are obliterated, one | up in the fines of time and pl. It is ecstasy that is the charm of love Love is not a mere liking. It is not @ pleasance. It is not the torment of desire nor its gratification. It is a transforming power, a power wizardry and change its very nature, ag wood is changed by flame, as changed to beauty by the song of a bird, All that is desirable in religion is ecstasy. Its moralities are cold, its restrictions are unpleasant, its creeds are baffling, but if it contains some point th | life glow it draws us irresistibly. The spirit of man is a candle of the Lord. If the candle will but burn it is willingly consumed. No religion has ever advanced that did not have its secret of ecstasy. The Catholic finds it in the sacred mysteries of his church, the Methodist at the mourners bench, the Buddhist in his contemplation, the fanatic in his zeal. Alcohol owes its long dominion over the human race to the fact that it can produce a sort of ecstasy. Every soul has its chosen ecstasy, its own door of escape. And you can get the x measure of any soul’s quality and stature That element in the drama which marks | by the sort of ecst: it selects. it as superior is its power of perfect illu- | For some eestasies are divine and some sion, when for an hour we are swallowed ‘are diabolical. when for’ an 8 oe Tailored Ready All-Wool, Hand-Tailored Clothes The one prize of life is the thing worth while, the pearl of great price, which, having found, a man will go and sell all he has. For that, it is difficult Literally it is “standing out” of one’s self. It is as if the soul were a bright bird made for wild altitudes and caged in the body, as if it were a king’s young son full of royal appetences but held prisoner in a cell with high windows. There is no life so contented but that its highest contentment lies in escape. It is ecstasy that is the mark of great literature. The book that finds me, that thrills me, is the book that makes me for get myse As I read it I step thru a magic door into another world. Why is it that all men love themselves, yet love most to forget themselv We travel to get away, to forget, and no travel is perfect joy because self always | goes along. Perhaps our purest joy is in dreams, for |nothing is so delicious as to live in the impossible, to realize the improbable, to escape the sentinels of existence and mingle with the things that are not. ecstasy, all to define BP Seattle’s Greatest Values Upstairs ing firmly in the doctrine of | | Come Now for your New Spring Suit or Overcoat High Grade Tailoring | All-Wool Materials | Upstairs You Save Money $15 to $45 Featuring Waist Seam Models for Young Men The Camouflage, the Victory, the Yank See Special Window Display on Fourth Avenue. TAILORED READY CO. Seattle’s Largest Upstairs Clothes Shop 401-403 PIKE ST. We leave it to the tmagination, how far such a/ to touch the soul with ite 7 silence ig = glows and makes @