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

wh service during the great war. th: 2 months, & mo’ S| | | —= "While lawmakers of congress and of 47 states in the have been talking of their gratitude to the soldiers of the debt that their country owes them, it has re- with North Dakota to take definite action along tial lines. ‘ Other states have taken some form of action. Idaho, instance, has passed a resolution asking the War de- nent for some captured German cannon, to be recast © medals for the soldiers. Colorado legislators have pre- ted a bill to give soldiers pick-and-shovel jobs on the roads at $1 a day, provided they would sign for a \ iod of enlistment. : ; v akington state refused to pass the Lamping bill to de $10 a month for each month of service. : In striking contrast with this sort of action, North ta has provided for a payment of $25 a month for ry North Dakota boy in the army and navy of the States or of the alli for each month spent in This money is to be either as a first payment on a city or farm home for dier or for his education, so that he may be able a better job. Adjutant Gen. Angus Fraser is charged the administration of the act. © Small wonder, then, that the Nonpartisan Leader ly remarks: f “The treatment being accorded our returned soldiers the nation shows up the thin veneer of old-gang tism. After the speech-making and bouquets, the ‘are left to shift for themselves in an oversupplied !a- 3 ¢ In fact, there is a deliberate plan in many rters to use the needy soldiers to beat down the wage The federal government made no adequate plans states have been trying to put the whole responsi- ‘on the federal government. % North Dakota is an ‘exception in this, as in nearly matters where there is a clash between private blic interests. It has worked out an adequate plan the soldiers and it is the only state so far to do patriotism of the North Dakota farmers is not veneer to selfish purposes.” May Be “Sour Grapes” Tn our youth almost every farm had a small vineyard every town place had a grape arbor. ' about the only grapes are grown by vineyardists, it appears that shortly they will pick another crop. Grape growing appears likely to be about as popular P growing, with prohibition all but upon us. Vhile the major portion of the grapes of the country not sold for wine, still the wine market stabilized tuation and gave the growers an additional outlet that u needed. congress placed lin juices, and thereby handed the grape/ tc deals in fiction. “Truth is stranger than fiction,” | the 10 per cent tax upon uni | ——— i am mg EDITORIALS — FEATURES * | Life’s Darkest Moment. DEAR SiR’ YOuR INComE TAY RETURN HAS BEEN FounD INCORRECT IM 18 INSTANCES, You Wile REPORT AT ONCE IN PERSON AT THE OFFICE OF THE COLLECTOR OF INTERMAL REVENUE. NERY TRULY, an eee Yiyyyy Uy Uy (Coppeight 9919, by HT Webster.) Starshells THE WEATHER MAN ‘The most widely read author ts the weather man ‘a jolt that will be duly passed on to the|so they say. Which probably accounts why so much so, with labor, and fertilizer, and spray materials (00 per cent higher, and with thousands of acres of ards perishing from old age, lack of care, and fertility ; } new plantings, and no immediate h of there ‘any considerable acreage planted, the outlook is that will about vanish. Aa the grape has, since history began, been one crops of the world. fruit it has much variety, more romance, more in any other, and but recently tens of millions were d in the growing of the grape and the manufacture odu oi; LB 7 scientists may have found one answer. Their k in manufacturing grape sugar and syrup appears to added another source of sweetness to the list, and sugar and syrup in time may become as important ie beet product has in the nation’s dietary. the idea of making a second-grade molasses out it might have been a quart or two of Cliquot Club tause an awful peeve in the bosoms of some of our fervid sports. % ‘The government is asking for quick action with ref-| mee to the city’s intentions as to the development of the tagit power site. So far the borings for a site at Gorge Creek, on the have been unsatisfactory. Mayor Hanson apparently regards it as an unimportant . Yet conservative minds will want to stop, look listen now before plunging ahead. sordid the big talking points for the Skagit was that development unit at Gorge Creek would be no|""* than sites that were nearer to Seattle—and yet would be a great reservoir of opportunity for further opment on the Skagit for a city of many millions. he original investment was to have been within 000 Q d to go further down the river, and mayhap be com- to drill a rock tunnel, and build additional miles of | jay to transport materials, the original estimate may | to twice $5,000,000. estimated cost of the various units was $30,000,000 pall. It was not expected, however, that the city should| d more than $5,000,000 at this time—because that nt should furnish the city with all the additional it needs. When the city shall have grown to be opolis of millions, then, of course, the other units e to be developed as we needed them. If, however, it should appear now that the develop-| nt of the very first unit of the Skagit means a vast bunt more than originally contemplated, it is time to nder the project very seriously. We must know exactly what we're headed for, W engineer's report in the matter must be thoro, The new industrial board of the department of com- merce wants to bring about the operation of the laws of supply and demand. What the consumer wants is a law that will supply more and demand less, A mere man can’t see unk difference between his new Victory red the ladies are weari d the old- fashioned barn red. is at We can understand why China sent Mr. Koo to a peace conference, but we can’t understand why he dis- closed the Wellington part of his name. oe a “copsagtd tga it is a wretched cause that vel says he must quit next summer in order to ‘ not stay on and try Hooverizing? If Gorge Creek is not suitable, and the city will be| The} |led today to a desperate encounter betwe |might be hubbub is raised when a weather prediction comes true, It so hap pens once in a hile, the weather ul make mistaken, wknow. The sef. owt way to play an xpert’s dope, is to e other way. ‘win six out a half dozen nes. What we n't teure ix why he weather man doesn't play his wrong His right ones are lowers as he goes now. After all, the weather man has to stand for a lot of joshing, But on the other hand we have to stand for his, So the pleasure is neutral. o-. We sneezed twice this morn . Spring must be here ing. eee UNFORTUNATE DELAY “If you refuse to marry me I'll enlist.” “What a pity you did not ask me four years ago.” —Sydney Bulletin. cee HE KNEW HIS GEOGRAPHY Two cadet aviators at a flying school in Ohio were taking an experimental filght First Cadet—"Thia isn't Ohio; it’s Texas.” First Cadet exas? How do you know?” Texas green?” ee QUITE AN IMPEDIMENT “Father,” said the sharp small boy. and-dumb bad an impediment in hiv speech A deafand-dumb man with on impediment in his h!” exclaimed father. “Don't talk nonsense, son.” “But he had, father,” insisted the boy. “One of his middle fingers was missing.” SHE KNEW HIM TOO WELL Mrs. Sweet-—Weren't you surprised, dear, your husband gave you such a nice present? Mrs. Sour—-No; | was suspicious, city when A HAPPY RELEASE tasil was a bore, and a brainless one at that. He looked dreamily at the charming girl on whom he was endeavoring to make a favorable impression “Did you ever long for death?” he asked in a low and moving tone “Whose?” inquired young person. the charming but “48 A WAR DILEMMA “Belle is in an awful fix.” si Us the matter?" y army fellow she's engaged to got thru with out a scratch and is coming home soon to marry her." Baltimore American. oe ETHERGRAM FROM MARS SOLAR CANAL, Butterworth trial in § the United States of the earth's tern hemisphere, » proml nent Martians, with the result that one, M. Xz, under treatment at the ethereal assembly headquar- ters The struggle occurred at the pale ray food nourish ment station, where the couple were provisioning them. selves for the quarterly period. It started when Mar that a casket of such violent colors and conflicting shade-elements as red, white and blue, would be valued at more than a coffin or burial rec cle of pale gray, however inferior the general construction or quality (The pri placing bodies in. th earth, it is underst On mainte 137 den ground is still maintained on by M. X-2 that such was the case, M 1 if that was the national color of the United State pointed out the uniformity of the Martian color scheme by way of contrast Contemplation of so many colors seemed to have thrown him into a frenay, for during the remarks that ensued, he tugged at M. X-2 viciously with his tentacles causing the latter to consume all of his food at once it ls not known whether he will recover, ayitRe PPP i tian X-127 took exeeption to the statement by M. X-2 | tive and barbarous custom of | ' | toward the soldiers who did their bit for the Letters to Editor SERVICE MAN EXPLAINS Editor The Star: Having read the resolutions of Seattlo lodge, No. 92, B. P. O. E., condemning the) legisiators who killed the Lamping bill, we, who are} awnlting discharge from the service, thank the support ers of the bill, who have showed true Amefticanism | “great caune.” To our knowledge, about 75 per cent of the men in the service have dependents, and of the above per centage, one-half pay allotments to dependents, the major portion of the remainder going toward the pur-| chase of Liberty bonds and war risk insurance, ete. | This leaves the men a very smal) sum for personal necessities, and when a man leaves the service, he has | | not enough money to back him. hunehes. | Consequently, he ig compelled to work for lower wages, because he has not the necessary money to keep him going until he can obtain a decent job. The employer knows that a man discharged from the service will be desperately willing to aecept a place &t insufficient pay, because he needs the money One renator, in opposing the Lamping Dill, said, “Giving discharged men a sum of money will teach j | them to be «pendthrifts and extravagant.” ‘This state: | | our monitors and censors. First Cadet—“Well, on the map isn't Obio pink and | “I saw a deat: | beggar in the street this morning and he | | exuberance on the part of our soldiers. | practiced | Bitlows, will stay in the ment is unjust, as men in the service are taught the) value of money thru the small pay they receive and always have their future in mind. Should any one| opposing any measure that would help a service man| after his discharge, enter this camp and talk with the| men here, he would soon change his attitude. | This letter i# written by men awaiting dlspharge. | Our names, which follow, must be withheld, as we are! still in the service. SIX SERVICE MEN. | Soldiers and Ballots | BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE | The soldier boys who have come back have become | they | New York is full of them If they don’t like what a street speaker says mob him. | If the opera doesn't please them they organize a/ chorus of their own to sing “America” to put the opera out of business. | If they don't agree with what the preacher says they hiss him and form a committee to demand an omics, music, politics 1 their criticlam | d maybe the boys are doing us a real service. Perhaps those of us who remained at home have be come too soft, Possibly, we need more of the heroic spirit that dominates their actions. Anyway, there's nothing to be nor any other subject is from this When they again fit into the normal life of the nation they witt express their patriotiam in a more even fashion, and | they'll strike with their ballots the evils which they formerly struck with their bayonets. feared The Girl He Left. Behind BY 0. B. JOYFUL Much has been said and written about the Girl He Left Behind Him when he marched off to war, includ: ing the following “Leonard Boulton, who has a farm near Bounding army, as his wife doesn't like him in civilian cloth That's what I in the Arkansas Thomas Cat, at Hot Springs, Ark | finds lots of funny things if one reads far} Globe City Banner informs us that Henry! Marsee is doing his bit toward solving the nation's | pployment. pri m by “hiri A man to white: | wash the interior of his woodshed | Henry's either a patriot or too Inay to do his own whitewashing (Many a whistle will be dry in July) Closing the saloons has brought great changes.” — | you bet!” said the other dry town inhabitant. | adays a Woran doesn't know where to find her | d,"——Judge, (You know where all the lawyers go.) i A couple of old codgers got into a quarrel and| landed before the local magistrate, The loser, turning | ent in a combative frame of mind, cried: | “I'll law you to the circuit court,” | Cs "sald the other, you to the supreme court,’ hus law you to ' “My attorney'll be th Boston Transcript. was the calm reply Ri : hat is the last thing that a girl's got her finger nto?” “I think it's a diamond engagement ring.'—Baltl- more American ‘ ie ty | | On the Issue of | | Americanism Shere Can | Be Mo Compromise The Love of Quiet By ‘DR. FRANK CKANE (Copyright, 1919, There are some who dread loneliness, and others to whom solitude is a treasure. And such is the mixed and paradoxical nature of our clay that there are moods in which I feel myself to be one of these persons, and other moods where I am the | other, Sometimes the impulse is upon us to go, | | to see, and to act. | fresh We crave novelty and experiences. We love the street throng, the crowded theatre, the stirring game, the ballroom, the excursion, business and battle. And then again the pendulum of whim swings back, and we love our sitting room, the familiar chair, the worn table, the lamp | and lounge and bookcase, that have estab- lished a dear intimacy with us, We want the long reaches of leisure, the sense of having nothing to do at 2 o'clock, the utter release from affairs, so that we can taste life—live, not live for something nor to do anything, but just live. There is a certain is a slow building up of the inner powers in eve epoch of rest. Walter Pater, in his rare essay on Charles Lamb, tells of how “to men of Lamb's delicately attuned temperament mere physi- cal stillness has its full value; such natures seeming to long for it sometimes, as for no merely negative thing, with a sort of mysti- cal sensuality.” This quiet of Lamb's, he says, was not of one drowsy by choice and needing some strong passion or worldly ambition to stimu- | late him; but rather “the reaction of nature, after an escape from fate, dark and insane | jas in old Greek tragedy, following upon which the sense of mere relief becomes a kind of passion, as with one who, having ! fecundity in quiet. | There is a poise and surety of thought | /that comes only in unhurried spaces, There by Frank Crane) ! narrowly escaped earthquake or shipwreck, | finds a thing for grateful tears in just sit- ting quiet at home, under the wall, till the end of days.” There are tragic shadows for all of us, Every life,, however free, has its dreadful | skeletons, its lurking horrors, things that we fear to look at or to think on. And | the more finely tempered the soul, the more | frightful are these reserves of morbidity which ever and anon emerge from their | dark cells where we try to lock them in, \and frighten us like baneful witches, | It may be some hideous mistake you have | made, some secret you would conceal, some relative who is a source of shame and sore row to you, some tendency to insanity in~ | your blood, or a deadly disease that hang; | over you or over one you love. a 6 It is from these night-birds of evil, z from the whole sad burden of existened and responsibility, that we fly, like b| to the everlasting arms of the co place, and get a comfort from the pu tea kettle and the friendly ticking o old clock, that no philosophy nor can give. LOVE’S WILL BY LEO H. LASSEN Wild passion led the youthful hand That filled the tragic poisoned cup, No hate nor malice ever planned ‘The deed; her heart filled up. With youth's blind dreams Of love, No awful schemes Of lust could enter there—but still The pity of her hardened will To sacrifice for him! A carefree girl just yesterday, Who laughed along life's golden way, And now her heart is rigid, cold, But still her woman's soul can hold A love for him—a troth God brings— Love wills indeed strange things! STARTS TODAY TOM MOORE A Romantic Cowboy, Armed to the Teeth and Ready to Scrap at the Drop of the Hat! —IN— “GO WEST, YOUNG A GOLDWYN MAN” PRIZMA NATURAL COLOR SCENIC “SKYLAND” A Fantasy of the Blackfoot Indian Country, with its Twilight Journey to the Land of the Drifting Clouds, with its Colorful Pictures of Quaint Costumes and Weird Dances. CHRISTIE COMEDY “Peggy Mixes In” LITERARY DIGEST GUTERSON’S RUSSIAN ORCHESTRA “Rose of Panama” ‘Song 6f a Soul”......