The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 25, 1919, Page 6

"The Seatile Star 1, out of city, 605 per month: 3 months & months, $2.75 . $5.00, in che of Washin je the per month, $4. year, By carrier, city, 120 per w Give Him That Job Back | All over the country the boys are coming back. Coming home from France, from the seven ‘seas, from land, from “elgium, from Germany, from Italy. We have watched these boys coming home for weeks. And as we watch them come swinging up the home n streets we live over again the agony of their going; 1} | The WeoP Row, | HAVE A PECLING THAT QUITE APPROVE oF Me, in Turron | SUPPOSE. | WISH ) WERE DiPreREeNT months of weary waiting; the anxious scanning of the ily casualty lis Those of us who are employers will remember how we A to ourselves that even tho we couldn't do much, We'd do what we could for the boys—and their old jobs ¥C be waiting for those whom God spared to come back We dug deep to buy bonds—we dug deep for the Red Ii for the sake of our boys. On that day when the nightmare ended we grabbed -bell and a'toy horn and joined in the mad celebration the boys would soon be home. “We promised nobody in particular and everybody in . that the boys should be given the grandest, most iz welcome the old town could pull off! "All that sounded well—the echoes of our boasts and clanging cow-bells reached acre the world and the cheered the folks back home for their loyalty. They believed in our sincerity. They came home to us, : and looking to us to make good. Their work is Ours started when they began coming back. They have been returning for some time now—and re- ming to what? | To find that we are BLUFFERS AND BOASTERS ID SLACKERS! © For their old jobs are NOT being held for them by, of Seattle’s prominent business men. Many a Yank is being told upon approaching his for-| boss that his old job is taken. | In some instances this has meant that the soldier is given a job at a smaller salary than the one he ye up to fight for that prosperous man’s future welfare, + that he is turned away entirely. Sometimes, of course, same generous employer promises to keep the boy in| nd place him at the first opportunity. And the boys who should be met on their return from r by a delegation of employers bearing offers of the jobs in their power to bestow are turned away from after place until they feel, not like saviors of their try, but like unworthy street beggars. Such a condition is an outrage. _ John Ruski * who had more beautiful thoughts per : than almost any other writer of prose, said: “Every one should listen to good music several minutes er] is a language. Thru it we express and receive s which cannot be resolved into words. it-of-doors weather is here. ities open-air band concerts. hing good is in line with progress. the trend is toward refining influences. usic ranks topmost among the things that uplift | exalt. It reachés within and fetches forward the mtility and nobility all of us know is there. Fi community should have its musical organization orted by the civic funds. This organization should singly develop public interest in the world of harmon- sweet sounds so little known and appreciated. ‘The Seattle Symphony Orchestra fills this place in this ' An evening of good music is like having some one read | book to you, impersonating its characters. It develops creative part of your mind. You translate sounds into loughts, are inspired, receive ennobling impressions. Your fination takes bit in teeth and runs off with you into y of dreams that leave their benefits in new- d views on the little every-day things of life. Help Clothe the Needy From across the sea come the cries of millions. Men, n and babies, refugees of the war, have their hands ti hed to America. They need clothes as well as This week, the Réd Cross is making a drive for Se- 's quota, 120 tons of clothes. The needy in France, fium, Rumania, and a half dozen other countries, are ‘on’t you help? You may leave your old colthes—which are serviceable any fire station or at the Central Collection office, 315 Iniversity st. The telephone is Elliott 795. A Confounded Nuisance People who failed to pay the first installment of their income tax March 15 have now lost the installment payment privilege — Wash statement. Privilege nothing! Most people thought installment ment was compulsory and they look on it as a con- punded nuisance. Anyway the alleged privilege was really the fellows who always get privileges—those whose ie taxes amount to large sums on which the interest ould amount to considerable. That he can speak American is not sufficient reason to grant him citizenship ; he should first demonstrate that he can think American. The revelation of treaties forced on China by Japan may persuade us that there is something in this scrap- of-paper doctrine, after all. Professor Larnaude says. Wilson is blessed with a most amicable disposition. He couldn't make Wilhelm Hasbeen believe it. Diplomacy is the. quality that will urge returning | Baldiers to remark casually that they don't think much of French girls. _ The Huns think our peace plans are heartless; but think how much worse they would have been if we had been Huns. If we can onte abolish the social caste in Europe, “perhaps we can persuade our own folks not to ape the _ About all civilization asks of a nation is that it be It brings to many mu-| As we ad- every assistance and co-operation to perfect it, to in-| Starshells A WORD FROM JOSH WISE No use t use th’ “Lost an’ Found” cok umn when you lose } your head. | ao HOBO DEFINITION “Wot's dis here ennui, Bill?” “It's when a feller gets #0 lazy he feels dat toafin’s blamed hard work."-——Boston Transcript eee LEGS AT BARGAIN RATES Old Lady (to severely wounded soldier) have you lost your leg? Tommy: Yes, mum Old Lady: Oh, poor fellow! Poor man, | Do have an apple edy: |comes next week I might get a banana —Tit- Hits ee ¢ | ANOTHER BUG! | Besides the 17-yearlocust, we have another t im due in @ short time. The golf bug > About this time j ean be found mas | aging the rust off xis clubs, and off # up the kinks » his wrists with midiron, mashie and putting prac tice on the parlor floorblanket. He zoos thru more sotfons than How lint == unbucklifig imaelf loose from a strait - jacket ‘Zz “Form,” in golf, is @ series of tricks to make one have a hard time of it trying to play a simple game. At the first game “form” will leave him with a oneway ticket for parts unknown. Then he will turmedn a fair score after each |game, providing he marks up the strokes himself. At this stanza of the year, the golf bug is all strung up like a harp, waiting for the opening “slice” of the cornfield pool season . ETHERGRAM FROM MARS SOLAR CANAL, March 25.—Everything is in read ness for the starting of the interplanetary expedition that will make the planet earth its initial objective High Doctor of Degrees, Martian X-111, in charge of the expedition, says he is assured of its success, so far as space navigation is concerned Fears are expressed, However, for the safety of the explorers, once they land on the earth, for the earth | t people are regarded as still very primitive and bar- | barous, Greatray dieclosures of wars, murders and fierce turmoil, lead to the belief that the earth is a ter- rible place. | What will be the reception of the Martians, who differ in many physical characteristics from the earth men? Are they not certain to immediately become ob jects of hatred and attempts made to destroy them? It is suggested that noxious fumes for combative purposes be taken with the expedition, This is being considered. Meanwhile, the concluding developments incidental to leaving, are followed with keen interest The cylinder | grounds, . . ¢ eee Speaking of names, a man named Bughee is trying to start a boom for himself for governor of New Jersey ee While William Knotts of North Platte, is the husband of Addie Knotts, asks to ee Now. untied. | And Lyda Tickle of Gary voree from William, | | But Guy Fluent and | Detroit 2 English were married in see - tarshells: But I took Saturday off and it cost me a da | see | A Philadelphia scientist predicts that within the next five years we'll be eating artifict Anybody who has eaten a custard ple in a restaurant knows | that the artificial egg is old stuff. ee But, ae the bright young lady company, three’s a trust.” A REALIZATION “How's prohibition workin’ in Crimson Gulch?” “All right,” replied 'Three-Vinger Sam. “The boys are beginnin' to realize that a man’s conversation is jes’ as inter’stin’ when he's sober an’ a heap more reliable.”—Washington Star, remarked, “Two's Tommy (to bis chum, when the old lady had depart: | Hill, I think I'l) have my other leg off before she | ascends from the Main eas ofipetidty who | Ind., has received a dk I heard #0 much about a S-cent | ‘On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise By Webster. tut! wr! ‘ ’ Wey, | wou tn’ raw You «. CHANGED Itt Wee SusGerrest MORE SCORN FOR SOLONS Editor The Star) I have been proud to be a citizen taxpayer of Washington for 15 and I con nider the defeat of the Lamping bill by far the most dingraceful and =k act of the & the present generatic And not the I blunder years @ feature of thin deplor ant in whieh the ore fly into the very face of public guilty wtate sen sentiment A certain prominent man, when some one suggested that the public was entitled to some rights, replied, “Damn the public!’ Our state senators have said, by their voting, “Damn the soldiers’ rights? The Star will not be doing itself or the public jus tice, by letting these pig-headed members of the legis lature “get by” eo easily with their infamoys action It should be given the greatest publicity of which printers’ ink and paper are capable, WILLIAM TL. manner MORGAN SUGGESTS IMPROVEMENTS Editor The Star: 1 suggest the following changes to the constitutions of the various labor unions 1. Onty American ejtizens ean hold office. 2. No one can holf office longer than four years, and must work four years at his trade or profession before he can be reelected This would ¢liminate the professional agitator and would broaden the man holding office, when he has to retugn to the ranks of the workers once in a while. y B. LORD. THE TAX BURDE Editor The Star: Just a word regarding the several war taxes that are being placed on us. We sent our sons to the war, we bought Liberty bonds and thrift stamps as well as making donations to scores of other funds for countries. I have given willingly to all of the above, but when our government levies heavy taxes on us in I protest. Why is it that the government put burden on the shoulders of this generation? war debts and I think @his generation has done its share during the struggle without having to tarry after-war burdens and let future generations reap the benefits of our toll A. B. A SOLDIER'S PLIGHT Editor The Star: A soldier boy at one of the can- tonments whowe regiment was ready to embark for overseas when the armistice was signed, wrote his mother can't have my picture taken in my own suit, mother, for it is all in rags. A comrade hired & sult made for himself; cont $35, Ho's about my alze, and I'l borrow it and have my picture taken as you wish, I've been furnished no clothes since I came except a sweater and one pair of socks the Red Cross gave me when I came out of the hospital. My leggins are worn out entirely my money—cost $3.50. “T can't see why they are holding us here. received a number of letters from former employers telling me a ich waited for me the commanding officer. He asked me lots of ques. tions, but no discharge yet. And I am so homesick!" This mother, altho under the doctor's care and needing rest instead of work, has been washing and | mending up her boy's old clothes that he might have | something whole to put on when he* comes home “Por,” she remarked to me, “he will have no money to get anything new.” And yet the Lamping bill wns killed! We NOT keeping our promises to our soldier lads M. B are Editor The Star A. @, would tell me the ts of Corporal Bernard Meer, Address Miss eral Delivery, Postoffice where Lillian Hill, Ger Telling the People What They Know Already Safe | BK REV. CHARLES STELZLE ien't it? will pay know—and the more the © eager they extra for listening to it ‘That's why the most "popular" prea who have the knack of saying commonp in a sensational fashion-—not the “prophet a generation ahead of their times ands urge t to come up to the ideals which they have most exalted visions That's why the polit with it is the one who k that he can hear what the people he tell it to them again in his own language: not the statesman who has thought thru the great questions of the day and iwn't afraid to tell the public what should be done about them. Of course, when a real than wih a genuine message DOES make good he begins a revolution which never stops until his dream is realized, and there's no need in being discouraged about things, for even tho the great preacher or the statesman is apparently unsuc ceduful, he invariably succeeds in enlisting somebody else who, perhaps in the following generation, puts across the “bla.\dea BY Funny People for being told what they already firmly they are convinced of it are to be told again and to pay those things who see » people n in thelr ra are » who always gets away 3 his ¢ the ground saying, so that can legislature relief of our sons and peoples of invaded! United States has all kinds of time to pay fits! I had to buy new Ones out of I've I have taken them to Would be very thankful if some | | kind soldier out of the 69th C. Moon-Born By DR. FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919, I met her first by moonlight. I never saw her except in the moonlight. |It was at a summer resort by the sea. | I was young. So was she. I thought I loved her. But I got little response from her, altho she was gentle and always wel- comed me with a smile and spoke most lintimately with me. But she was too wan, Her moods defeated jme. I was afraid of her. I fled at last. 1 felt that I was becoming entangled with a ghost. J never knew what became of her. This is the way she would talk. It may \give you some idea of what I mean. “ |was moon-born,” she said one night as we ‘sat looking at the moon-lane on the sea. | “What do you mean?” I asked. “Have you never read Baudelaire’s ‘Baga- telles Laboreuses,’ His Poems in Prose?” she 0. | “You ought to. He was not a Satanist \they will prove to you. He was a non- religious mystic. He was one of those minds | lthat peep thru the interstices of things | and see not fact, but the ether in which | they float, | “One of these poems has been translated by Andrew Lang. the winding stair,’ it opens; and like ‘that moonlight made vocable; so Thou shalt love afl things strange and sweet, That know me and are known of me; lover thou shalt never meet The land where thou shalt pever be | “That is I. Once a month I live, when \the moon shines. I do not love the sun- shine. During the daylight all the coarse vitality of men and animals functions. I do not like work and play and struggle and success, | “I like dreams dnd wonderment and guesses and all things half-glimpsed. I would rather see fairies dancing than chil- dren romping. Dead people are more in- teresting than the living. “When the moon shines there is a vast stillness everywhere. Then the soul lemerges. Then I breathe. I am released \from the vulgar Present. The Past and jthe Future come and sit with me. They are |so calm, so certain, so eternally fixt. They bring me_ peace. “T am human, as you. But all my pas- sion is hushed, like the huge sea there. |My thoughts are cool, and whisper like the EYES OUR SPECIALTY The | Years of ex. | perience in fitting | | and making } glasses, and our! | operating ez-— enable us | Broken Lenses duplicated on short notice at reduced prices. Free Examination and Satisfaction Guaranteed - Schoonmaker Optical Co. One Bleck South Public Market. 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I love this hour and place, the moon’s hour and the sea’s place. | It is, as Keats says, My My fancies The unimaginable lodge Of solitary thinkings, such as dodge Conception to the very bourne of heaven, Then I eave the naked brain. * I was young. And health; So, as I said, I was afraid of her. Todas Poem BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE A L-O-N-G TIME COMING I do pot bold each man should be As restless as the stormy pea, Whose every effort ought to free A nipth wave or a tidal, Yet, if you've work to do today, You'd better do it, while you may, For after while, you're apt to stay, A igre time idle. I’ve nevér thought a man should shout And fling exuberance about To prove that life is just a rout, A rapture and a riot, But, if your heart is warm and gay, Be glad it is and give.it play! 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