The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 24, 1919, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR--MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1919, oo The Seattle Star i, out of city, per month; 3 months. 2 6 Months, $2.75; year, $6.00, In the ington, Outside the state for 6 months, or $9.00 de per week r, city If : On the Issue of || Americanism There Can BE ITORIALS — | Life’s Darkest Moment. Food Only Will Save World We've won the war. : we stop now and take life “We do not' “Our job is only begun. ‘it—maybe 10. fo matter, we have to do it. | that, or we all go to smash. | oe t is the job that we have before us? Briefly, it is to put the world back on its feet. That full-sized job. he world just now is one of the finest wrecks known Mo history. Our civilization hangs on us like a bit of gauze. 2 ss all right from a distance, but a good smash with 10 boot, so to speak, would rip it beyond recognition. | > ifications? Sadly too plentiful! Be years of destruction. Everything going for war. saving our freedom and our opportunities to go for- democratically, has sapped our resour speaking “world sense. ny nations are literally starving to death housands of acres of land have been des easy? We may be five years finish populations thrown back upon acres alread. full. igium, Rumania, Serbia—three nations shot to Nothing left but ruins. Everything gone, Build- razed; machinery wrecked or stolen. ern France a memory of horror. The whole nation ished. taly impoverished, hungry, without raw materials, coal. One-sixth of the very soil of the country of use by war. everywhere the same story—not enough of it the boilers of industry. nd, largely in the same predicament. She must} it is not the end. | ~ In Russia, anarchy, called Bolshevism. In Germany | Austria, no one is quite sure what. In Turkey, abject A wre OusT CLoTH HANGING Or THE WALL WHEN You've BEEN READING GrrosT STorRie 5 In Warsaw and Constantinople, the same story. Babies places on the map of Europe and Asia are any- near normal. eover, they lack the tools and the food to become) without help from the outside. : from one disaster, these nations face another. is part of the price of victory. But victory will nothing if starvation conquers now. pod must go to the starving peoples of the world of it must be given outright to those who have ‘ So a their all to the common cause. With food Must £0) en eee eee von in front of a gartag : seta ryeoimor fe asagi, dmdeam the things that |vacant abode. Then t ighborheod hoasewtv salva and rehabilitation. t fe must do this! d be enough! justice demands that the helpless be helped. Our own self-preservation demands it—for one-half world cannot stand with the other half in ruins. ong) must see this. Perhaps it may be hard to } from Washington. From Paris and London nothing an be seen—except by the Dodos who never see any- d by the pro-Bolsheviks, who are raving fools. vai CHESTER M. WRIGHT. (Copyright, (91%, by MT Webster) Starshells THE MOVING VAN rattles into v A moving va start their favorite tuff the indoor grand ress There are two reasons—tho either neweomer’s AHA- NEW NEIGHBORS) MOVING IN me VLL STAY IN TODAY AND SEE WHAT KIND OF FURNITURE “THEY WAVE, INSTEAD OF GOING DOWN “TOWN - ture, is the meny As each piece comes out of the By 4 Who Are the Revolutionists? van @ score of fe @ it And the peculiar pa male o work of benefit t the eyen «iy sharp once SMASH MOVING CO There are 250,000 children working in the varied in- of Massachusetts. the worse for er . "7 lagi ragg are working in direct violation of the bene sent 24 sees yew a ie ' nx Wrong some place jousands are working at machines undef conditions money or they'd be h are a menace to lives and health. Pe, SRN, SS Oe holders are insisting that earnings be kept up| -y la s not reduced. Schoolmaster—So you admit the unfort ill agents are always hard put to keep down wages! was carricd to the pump and drenched nt reductions in hours. Now, sir, what part did you take in thin disgra xtile and other factory workers have an endless |**fir? pt = le for living above the existence lines. eee, oc get ailaiaademarlaae dene: : r and want are ever a menace to the families these children to the factories. 1 WORD FRON moving tr Ain't that just DEFINITE AT LEAST to mos efu We want to be restored are young men. Pr ent indications 4d and » e have be are stat sions by memb Poverty and destitution are for them always just ( JOSH WISE affic for thet the corner. ; : I r what we Injustice, oppression, poverty, want, and destitution Th’ patient man has of us, ¢ t doa lot ui sary watin.’ unneces- ted despair that ripens into rebellion. | Who 6 furnishing fertile soil for revolutionists’) ho is brewing a hell’s broth of Bolshevism? POOR MOTHERIN-LAW AGAIN A PROGRAM ¥ Jimson had" y taken hin coat .off when his Editor The I wot % inlaw, pale of face, rushed up to him and n men a Dian grabbed his arm. » The County Jail “©, Arthur,” whe gasped, “that great, heavy grand. “4 this or any city off from work to the w vers), euppose for a father clock in the hall just crashed down on spot where I had been standing only a second b Jimson did not seem to be greatly agitated a ' Whether Miss Ruth Garrison, confessed murderess, is nown nad only muttered dina cell in the county jail, or whether she is placed in| “t'm! 1 always said that clock was slow!" iry confinement in the juvenile detention home, pending | coos trial, is of small consequence. Certainly, it is nothing| HE WAS EASY, PERHAPS which to bubble and boil. a tegen he bs ers de if Randll In due time, the sheriff must produce her in court—| wnt A babe tod tie wh when convicted, the court will sentence her accordingly. | trom home all that time, and ‘The sheriff maintains that the county jail is not a fit|*wallowed him for the confinement of ANY juvenile. By that he mt re Serene Here are poor and miserable. is points e need of a new jail, The old jail is abominable. The Ruth Garrison case merely now emphasizes the! nap / ‘ity of a new jail—a modern jail. Be CONSULTED WRas Ruth Garrison is not entitled to gpecial favors. But she PAKS ni penser nee eee entitled to a decent cell. If the other inmates in the county | ii could also be removed to the House of Good Shepherd the Juvenile Detention. home, they should be forthwith. | 1 would be nothing more than a plain act of decency. Nabdete ti see | _ This sort of treatment is not to be confused with mere| FORCED TO TOIL entalism—the kind that proffers flowers and candy to| “You used to hate work.” te it pc defendant in nearly every “ riangle case.” “I hate it yet.” replied Plodding Pete But I'm | union men to carry Our county jail is unfit for any inmate—and when the| ©" t® keep at it. If you get in the habit o° loatin’ | ay riff or the court can find another place for any of the?” Bot rth op sis yon nieoamen, oners, they are only doing their duty. ; : ne oi —_— ~~ HIS OPINIC “T wish now I'd taken begged me nm to marry you your mother try to keep you from marrying able Now with all the ur each Saturday to inv r. Union Man, reckon rty we would have in children; we told her a w marbles eee THOUGHT HE COULD, ANYWAY “They asked me to their reception, but it wasn't because they like me; it was only because I can sing." “O, I'm sure you're mistaken, dear!” t of this plan is Look around, that has been ¢ cunious bar | this However, Opportunity is door, and if we can own and control t We will not have t« It will come to us le wealth “Did you resent it?” “No; it wasn't until I got home that I realized tha name was highbrow for ‘a poor fish Boston property ple there out this is linble to step up Washington Star other part buy cottage he f the pr We c a year which could be re e when she | at a nominal sum, ¢ little cost or effort to | Be: The conference decision that Germany may have > an army of 100,000, no more, means that Germany will have an officers’ school containing 100,000 students. to get home THE MELANCHOLY ™ E Features BS WHY ARE THEY HELD? tood algebra, but afterward, when “| Hut what shall disinfect you, 4f you slime yourself re men be held in this} school teacher I had to teach algebra to within? h right t eased a All the world from pole to pole ineff it month At present the word that we will all be gray arted by canes when th nents made on * of congress that their pay was not k LABOR UNIONS ereby they ean num and at the same * property n is that instead of laying chang jaté the half day's pay to income property in Seattle 8 there would be about $80,000 it *up don’t want Saturday afternoon to play Why, we could even beat the Japanese at the game. as we outnumber him hundreds to that our weekly pay check would rties would be a 1 we find that everything visible d by man is the product of labor and skill, but the workers at pre apply ourselve properties. trike, and honestly ing in our laws that forbids us to acquire and own collectively for mutual benefit not brains enough among | simple e to take it al » asleep if we don't ram co. ald buy for the pe AT “ f 1” | and what a big stock company the unions would be Tf the Hun is to pay for his food with potash, “ Mie that woman!"—Boston | pany Fee Sr nine OF FUUdings ARG Hus ERE ORR ie wouldn't it be well to yet the potash in advance? There | tr anscript Nie Wi aibtaner ast Anedther fe w gets the ? | i a suggestive affinity between potash and lie. | Bicone Why not own at least'a share of what ae tate Ll ‘(| Qe No Compromise By Webster. Why None the Wiser VRANK CRANE 1919, Frank Crane.) By DR (Copyright convinced by others, we generally convince ourselves It is also a good practice to write down | A young man writes to me wanting to know Why, as far as he is concerned, educa- |tion does not educate. He says that he has taken advantage of many opportunities ifor self-improvement, but somehow does not get the advertised good out of them. He even goes so far as to say that he regularly jreads my articles. what we think or know. In which case we often discover that we do not know it at all, or that our knowledge is exceedingly vague. It is what passes out of the mind that He continues, “What I’m coming to is | remains with it. The information that we U this. I read educating books, educating give ty is that which we most truly articles, attend frequently educating lec- | possess. In the realm of the mind the say- tures, etc. And am none the better and ing is true, “It is more blessed to give than none the wiser for it. Won't you please , to_receive,” You think you know, for example, all about the great war. Just attempt to tell some one, say a classroom full of children, a succinct story of the war from its begin- ning to its close, and see what a blur and mix is over all your knowledge. Todaxr Poem BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE ,tell me why this is so, and also how it can be remedied?” Of course, there are many who have had the advantages of books and men and art and have come out unscathed of culture. | They are what have been called Duckback- ers, in school and out, from whom all edu- cative influences have glanced like water from a duck’s back But I take it that my correspondent is jnot one of these, but is really a willing and receptive mind who wonders why all the ke pabulum he devours fails to fit esti off make mental bone and muscle. In other words, why this defective ; COME CLEAN spiritual metabolism? BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE There may be other reasons, but ONC | When you dip your hand in offal, you can water it reason, probably, is that my inquirer is and soap it jeating too much, intellectually speaking; | Wpen you dip your brain in-garbage, where's the remy ¢ dope it? bit of filth you fed it, As you heard it, or you maid ft, Is firmer fixed than tho you tried to anchor or im jand not exercising enough. | Dr. Samuel Johnson pointed out the dan- lger that lies in the pleasure of acquiring |knowledge. You are apt to beget an enor- jmous appetite and no commensurate Vigor. | 1.0. you step into the sewerslime, you-haven?-mech |We gain strength only by doing as well as 16. leon jeating. in fleeing from it, you should throw away I would recommend to this young man raga iia oi hada that he try to teach what he knows to Pe em Stace ec wan g some one else. Knowledge is nutritious and As to think that you can free your mind by slipping off becomes a part of us only when we pass your skull. it on. e I remember in high school I never under- | Even tho, your | You can sofl your body outwardly and wipe f- off your skin, "\boys and girls, I really learned it myself. A "i Yonverss . : Might be under your control Conversation ang discussion assist US tO! jut what shall keep or cleanse you, if the-manaiiel digest the knowledge we acquir For in eat your soul? the heat of argument, altho we may not be (Copyright, 1919, by N. BE. A) ue t of and are nov r { and drafted men are e duration of the same war, Why the release of t we are held an and seem to ¢ matter is that we are e government. We are ment rations, recetv ne are of absolutely to earn a ur wives, who have allotment system fter month for f resamen year waste » they might © quarreling hem and get ntry a free is a farce \- Heles teeth, e breath. apretite, “free to civilian life while we does happen. veral occa f them if they were ir pay only what rit might A. E. F. like to call the attention reduce all time homes in vattetien nn ons (which is dead © to our em on the Job and 1» fund to purchase desir ERMETICALLY sealed in its wax-wrapped pack- age, air-tight and impurity proof — WRIGLEYS is hygienic and wholesome. The goody that’s good for young and old. and see how much a year or two. We are , and the best the same ag nt own but little of steadily knocking at the to the above plan we fight or even vote for it.) There is noth: a pine ie AES Re ? Or shall we Be sure to get ie The Flavor Lasts workers this way | We surely deserve it if anyone 4 When the Hun chose Belgium as a gateway to |1t'# hard to be unhappy in days like these |. Wort ‘or a daily wag highly honorable and France, he didn’t know it was a toll gate with a seven. | TH earth Js filled with a glad unrest and urge; noces but while we are at it let us look to s Wion-dollar fee. |The primal pulse of Spring is beating, thing more profitable to go with it, and quit this J And the i se ; dogand-cat fight 4 few cents an hour. Forget it rca oon we shall have new grass anc je daisies is too nar und prof _ Germany may find consolation in the fact that im- bana Wide und’ aveevietnne nd little dais Tt Is toa narrow and pre ux nothing. |Get down provements made during the war made our old fleets | And yoaterday, 1 saw a man in a light spring suit, | what brains we Ipve as well pa eke wees co GL With a riotous shirt and bright pink tie He looked #0 ful, | Just like @ breath of Spring. eee as useless as hers. Keep on the job, Be public, will come our way And almost everybody is anxious that everything d come down except the particular thing he manu- Allensot Kansas insists that we botched the battle ae * of the Argonne, At any rate, we botched the boche ~-POMER. | eye faithful to your employer and | yourself, thus winning the respect by falr dealing, and in the meantime success Follow my plan, brothers, and win, JUICY. CHEWING support of the GUM J, B. DE GRACR, |