The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 31, 1919, Page 6

Sor groan when captured a town. Phe Seattle Star out of city, Sc per month; 3 months 2.76; year, $4.00, Im the Outside” the state, for 6 months, or $9.00 B __ London ition Nation is one of the few influential foreign that jump on the proposed constitution of @ league of nations, and it winds up a long assault thus: “The fatal flaw in the foundation of this structure is} complete autocracy. The center of vast power is vested | @ self-constituted autocracy of five ministers, who con- pi all determined judgments and actions of the league.” | When mankind recovers from the scare produced by} oll autocracy, it is likely to discover that there virtue in autocracy and often downright and justi- necessity for resort to it. Much depends upon the) } and the sources of the autocratic powers. While a have to curse the objectives of Hohenzollern autocracy, a } to concede its high efficiency. Its purpose was and its source of authority degenerate, but it came near winning the world. ’t a “center of vast power” the real thing that makes national agreement of any sort worth while? Isn't! tion of the final.authority and power to do, the that makes any undertaking, factory, bank, store, | or family go? ; meet any sort of crisis, are not the essentials and decisiveness? eture France or Belgium again raided by the blood- Hun, and rescue dependent upon 30 nations o1 } formally assembling and agreeing upon what to do! allies didn’t get a start at winning the war until} made Foch an autocrat. W our own great democracy entered the strife, the st thing it did, and wisely, too, was to hand over auto-| r to the center of war authority. | At Paris the nations are trying to prepare to meet a) crisis, as well as to ward off a crisis, Mr. Wilson a mistake if he returns without consenting to ment under which such erisis can be hit} d definitely, with the force and efficiency which cy furnishes. is the self-constituted, irresponsible autocracy that | ly dangerous. The boss is a good thing, if he bosses | gen good and can be pulled down at the option | bossed, and that’s the sort of autocracy at which | ue of nations proposition seems to be aiming. } A Job for Every Worker : ‘ perils that a out of disemployment of large nbers of men are increasing every day. | ous situations arise anywhere at any time when unemployed and hungry. The danger increases as and children begin to suffer, no real reason for the closing of a single) produces food, clothing, or any of the neces-| j class of disemployed, the greatest, surest | market any country can have is crippled, | but destroyed. all of the workers in the United States ag the home market would be wo far and producers than a complete h American trade. needs the products of North America. to us for foodstuffs, fuel, fibers, metals, i we can have in ty industry, producing anything but the munitions d full blast. building project should be put forward with There is a widespread demand for better hous- the people. More building should be begun at once. Tay dela improvement enterprise should start with- 's y istoration of confidence and courage, shorter hours) spirit of sacrifice if need be on the part of em-| ers will give hundreds of thousands of returning sol-| rs work without any displacement of other workers will cause any suffering. this demands immediate action. will pene about a great era of prosperity that will y. everybody should get behind Secretary Lane's ‘ition to provide employment and land for soldiers! 0 are returning to their homes eager for employment E to get on the land. this would mean not only “a job for every star the service flag,” but a “job for every worker.” Censoring Things A young girl the other day confessed that she placed in the food of her rival in “love.” This story| d more interest and more attention than much more! ‘Whether it was in the back yards or in society’s draw- | rooms, where neighbors exchanged opinions over the whether in the barber shop, or in busy marts of the Garrison case held supreme attention. The e of nations didn’t have a chance alongside it. Naturally, then, an enterprising photoplay house owner d “moving pictures” of the Garrison girl as she taken from the juvenile detention home to the su- rr court, a few days ago, But when he advertised that the pictures would be nted at one of his theatres, lo and behold! he re d word from the acting mayor that the picture was ot Censored! By what right? Freedom of press and ech must, if we recognize the evolution of things, extend o to freedom of the stage and “movies.” Exhibitors, like publishers, must be held accountable for the se of their privilege. But no man, be he acting mayor r royal nabob of Timbucto should have the right arbi- wily to say: “This pleases me; therefore it may be This I do not like; therefore it must not be We may have outgrown the desire to lick another ‘nation, but we haven't outyrown the desire to adele it concerning its own affairs. The popular view is that the sleepin sickness w caused by the flu, the flu by the “nit ihe Gor oy "the Hun, the Hun by the devil True, the league constitution pledges ws to mix in any scrap that may happen, but it pledges the world to see that none happen. A statesman is a man who knows whether to cheer he reads that a faction in Russia has German expansion is booked for a long siege of Life’s Darkest Moment. my! rr's Gooo Yo SEE You AGAIN, RALPH! Sit RIGHT Down AMD TELL ME ALL YOUR ADVENTURES WHEN IALS — FEATURES “On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise —By Webster E Pluribus Unum (Copyright, 1919, The motto of the United States of America is E Pluribus Unum. The gospel of the United America is—Federation. Many in One! ‘hat is our open secret. States of That is our contribution to history, to hu- | manity. ‘To show how divers states can live together in unity. be one people. Daniel Webster, in the peroration to his famous reply to Hayne, said something to the effect that, after being long tossed about in storm and cloud, it behooves the | mariner, in the first clear sky, to locate the fixed stars and get his bearings. So now, in this welter of discussion, as to whether we shall go on with our al- liance with Europe or disentangle ourselves and withdraw to our former aloofness, it will be well to look again at our watchword, the Pole Star of our existence, the distilled drop of wisdom that contains the essence | of our national life—E Pluribus Unum. That is the gist of the American consti- tution, And that is the gist of what the world is now trying to effect at Versailles, It is laboring to make one out of many. America showed the world the way. The | league of nations means the Americaniza- |tion of the world, Even the French jour- pin lt Meo Aa HEART FAILURE KILLS How many races, | variant bloods, divergent creeds, can still | By DR. FRANK CRANE by Frank Crane) nalists are exclaiming, “Voila le monde qui s’Americanise! A United States senator in a speech the other day said that after thi over whole international business had ded to remain an American.” What he meant was a “Little American.” He had in mind to be an American as @ Prussian Junker is a German, as @ is a Turk or a*Chinaman is The great American takes in the whole earth. Nothing human is alien to him His ideas ‘are inclusive, not . He also is a world-conqueror, net as Caesar or Napoleon or Wilhelm, to bring unity by force and dominance, but as @ man, to bring unity by co. He, too, has his dream, but it is mot of. empire, it is of federation. He believes he cannot save his own na- tion unless he saves the world, for would save his life (alone) shall it And he is not afraid of the shrinks not from the high He goes smiling to the con mats of the Old World, and confusion and despair show) They have no other to him and t that device he | his banner— | -E, PLURIBUS UNUM. | YOu VE LUGGED A BOCHE HELMET ALL THE WAy HOME FROM FRANCE To PRESENT To THE GIRL ANP You DiISCovER. Six OF THEM ON THE MANTLE in HER, HOME —— (Capytaht, 909, ty HT Wet MUSINGS OF J. BARLEYCORN O, dear! wer vases after June 20. The styles in men's clothes for the coming summer will not include the shiny right elbow. Obsolete expreanion No, 1; “G' luek.” Won't it be nice to ring for the bey in the morning and have him bring up a nice, refreshing coca cola? The rosy balbous nose will no longer be worn in the best society. Shades of Johnnie Walker, the raisin and near beer market is going up! No Be that aa it may, Mre. Belle Bell lives in Utica, | 0., and Dayton Brewer i a druggist in Lavaca, Ark And W. W. Hire, of Cleveland, bas been advertising he will employ salesmen. And Chas. Parent is a bachelor in Seattle eee EXPERIENCED Just discharged from army, first class, all around | butcher and meat cutter, Any one in need of good C. A. Brawneer, Barlville, Mi—Aurora, 1, ere “Kindly make a rote of i.” postcards LD. “I maw 4 hotel porter yesterday brushing the floor of a lobby and he didn't ask @ single man to move.” eee Reading the newspaper stories of the fence built around a witness chair in a New York court room, we have come to the conclusion that there are two feet to one Inch oe GOOD ADVICE An Irishman presented bimgelf before a magistrate to seek advice “Sor,” he said, “I kapes hens in me cellar, but the wather pipes i» bust an’ me hens is ail drownded.” “Sorry I can't do anything for you,” enid the magia | trate; “you had better apply to the water company.” A few days later Pat again appeared “Well, what now? What did the water company tell you?” queried the magistrate. “They told me, yer honor,” was the reply ducks."—Chicago Tribune. “to kape BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE THE STREET CAR I looked down the lane of a car With pagttenger-heads in a row, And I said to each head, “What you are I am curious, somewhat, to know. I could fancy you ranged on a shelf, Like a series of overturned bowls, So I think, to enliven myself, I shall take off the tops of your souls And one soul was full of a scheme Of how to grub gold, lily-handed, And one soul was ripe with a dream Of relief for the stricken and stranded And one soul was witless and wild, All heedieas of gaining or giving And one—'twas the soul of a child— Bubbled up with the laughter of living And one soul was grinning with guile Intent upon tricking a woman, And one lolled and languished the while And approved its own wit and acumen And one soul wae fretful and thin A flying soul sentenced to flivving— And one (with an African skin) Chuckled up with the laughter of living And one soul was sticky with pride And counted all things by their cost, And one soul was dreary and dried And one was afraid it was lost And one soul was sayed—and to show it, It wept with a mournful thanksgiving; And one—'twas the soul of a post Leaped up with the laughter of living I set back their tops on the souls, On their frivol and fret, and their folly And again, with expressionless jowls, They were passenger-heads on a trolley ‘Then I peeped in my own soul, my brothers; I up-topped it with a misgiving, And I found all I found in the others, Excepting the laughter of living. (Copyright, 1919, by N. B.A) ‘They'll be using the 16ounce shells for | HAVE WE GONE INSANE? Editor The Star Mave the public and the news | papers of Seattle become entirely almost tempted to believe so by the tenor of most of the comments on the Garrison The writer has | always believed that murder is a serious erime, but the public and newspapers of this city seem to have | | entire lost sight of the fact that wuch a crime has| | been committed | | insane? One ts! | It seema to be the general, and, I believe, the | correct impression that Dudley Storrs wronged Ruth Garrizon most bitterly, If it were Storrs himself whom Mins Garrinon had poisoned, I would be inclined to justify the deed and would say: "A good riddance,” | but Miss Garrison apparently still retains the warmest regard fér the reai author of her troubles and seems te show no particular regret for her cruel and cold blooded murder of Mrs. Storrs. Miss Garrison receives letters of sympathy by the score, but no one seems to have any sympathy for | the murdered woman, or for her family, The papers | | contained columns of reading matter about Mis Gar rison on the very day that the burial of her victim) | was announced in a bare dozen or #0 of lines. Appar ently it in beginning to be considered a mere incident for one to commit murder, if the murdered one is in| & poxition to interfere with the 4: the murderer. | What is the use of trying te flange the real situation? Ruth Garrison, willingly or unwillingly in the beginning, but in the end entirely willing, submitted herself to the desires of Dudiey Storrs. There seems | to be no doubt that che made two trips to visit him at | Okanogan, living » him as his wife for nearly a month on the last occasion. Whether or not she was deceived in the beginning, she was certainly under no misapprehension at this time. And she returns to Beattle and proceeds to remove Mrs. Storr# in order to be able to be with Storrs all the time Sheriff Stringer and others in attempting to defend. excuse, or condone the crime, plead that “Ruth is a ehild in years and hus a child's mind.” Apparently | her mind wae not too childish to know what kind of | poison could be procured at the drug store, what kind | of a story to tell to get it, how much of a dose to | administer, and in what kind of food to administer it The fact that she said she threw away part of the poison would seem to show she also knew that an overdose would not do the work. When interviewed by The Star reporter, Mire Garrison was careful to omit to answer a question as to why she went to Storrs at Okanogan, Such caution Is, of course, en: | tirely characteristic of childishness. Apparently her principal regret at her deed is that she “was a boob to get caught.” If the conduct of Ruth Garrison shows a childish mind, then God help her neighbors if she is ever turned loose upon them after her mind has fully matured; | for then she would likely not be a “boob to get caught.” ce A LETTER OF APPRECIATION Editor The Star: I am writing not for publication or publicity, but just to relieve my chest. Doubtless there are thouvands in the city who feel ax I do regard ing The Star, and who are just as remiss about telling | You. Please don’t misunderstand me, that I think you need patting on the back for doing your duty, for I believe that your patriotism is more than skin deep. You have shown this in your editorials; in fact, your editorials on the war have been the best of any paper in Seattle, Your stand on the labor question was truly patriotic and manifested genuine Americanism, and your position no doubt resulted in a groat business lows, but I trust it will all eturned to you with Interest. ivery fair-minded man wants labor to have its due | and it must get it, but the only way for it to win is to be fair, give value received, stand by its agreements and then the great tide of public sentiment will stand | squarely behind it in any reasonable demand that it | may make, and see that it gets a square deal | No honest man or pape n give it support while | the character of its management is such as it has been in the past, A thoro housecleaning is absolutely essen tial and a different princ must characterize the | representatives of labor. But I am wandering from the subject. The letter is to commend The Star for! its honest, fearless and patriotic stand, and 1 wish you| | every success Sincerely, GHO, A, VIRTUR. | MORE THIRD DEGREE Editor The Star: In the name of common sense, | decency and justice, what is the idea of carrying that barbarous third degree system to an extreme and continually hammering at that poor girl, Ruth Garrt- | son, and trying to make her say, “The man told me to do it," when he may be perfectly innocent? } IT am no detective, but the mental strain, especially on those so young, may cause them to throw up their hands in desperation and swear to anything in order to be let alone. Those would-be officers make me tired, Thev would hew= = mo» for their own profit. GW. 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