The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 11, 1919, Page 6

oy eee BE eg * San The Seattle Star © Oe pe nonth: 3 onth, a een Rita, 009 per nm am oo. es Bhaee so 50 fe Y na, oF 09.06 How to Torture Your Wife. : —By Webster.! Police Sabotage peeneray a waren aR Y gorapeegeer peer a er New FL > Te CAY Dusty Murer, YOu CA ONTEN baie ie ehes bee The “No fare, no ride” rule of the munipical | ano m «00 r eer Gimme A SMver [our ova gone | | van ‘Eom wes Ay iway 3 sxxcuse for the police department) || Rout orem tLe Doc Tor. oF A Ght¥ Wiiedl ens oye bi ytd aon petra’ : ear my nat.ever, © [ BLACK ana f isn! ef on . c CK, Lt Ss . : . 3 ete se A DUSTY maLLER BE Cone a ‘That's apparently now the plan, to some extent As me! at the police make no mistake about the matter. | public is not going to stand for officers sluffing ind that’s what they’re doing when they walk ‘Miles, or even two miles, to their beats, in order their protest. : he Lh on official business, the policemen’s rides Wild be paid for by the police department. That's mt the new rule means. It does not mean they walk at all times. . (Copyright, 1919, oy In their deliberations as to what to do| a # legally punished for the war and its out- rages, the peace conference was hampered For a crime is a breaking of the law. li War is not the breaking of any human law. It is entirely legal. A king can command his subjecta to gather together and go forth to chop down | the citizens of a neighboring state, burn their houses and take away their posses- sions, and not be amenable to any human court, He can't even be “jerked up and HAW! Haw! THa’s ha } inever. nao Arey)! fined” for disturbing the peace. . distances to and from their beats, they | Hureree warrewne! / te fu yy ¢ ; pct — arte ¢ WHER eee os = huzzasat him as he rides his prancing steed ismissal. There is no warrant in os . ‘ if y bease-as Bias as ho sidee Se woaene sos ‘no ride” rule for such tactics. It is nothing } rt of sabotage. . him, pray for the peace of his murderous i soul. At was never meant that the individual policeman yuld out of his own pockets the fares required le Sis performing official business, such as g from the police station to his beat. That's a ser charge to be assumed by the police depart- up till now, for nations there The society of nations has al- ways lived in a state of anarchy, each doing what was right in its own eyes. The world has been as lawless as an |Avizona mining camp in the sixties. | Whgt is called international law was but | as aghain of posies.to hold lions. fe've had enough of this “walking” strike by the) | ? Phere is te excuse for it. The chief is No is worth a hoot in hades unless es * there is some arm to enforce it. An infer- | nsible if it should save caiman | DOTA Cvee use national law was a myth because there was . no internation. iin seadauae Or isee te It is precisely to remedy this defect that the Versailles council proposes a league of nations. It is to make the rambunctious would-be conqueror a criminal, to be caught and hung, and not to be glorified. It is to drive royal, legal, national bandits from the highways of the world, and to sweep the seven seas of commissioned pirates. Quo Vadis? prelate of wide experience in Russia, on his return Seentry, stated that the pre-revolution faith rev- nis country, stated that the pre volution fajth, rev- d anything ever before seen on earth. churchman expressed the belief that these peoples id, in time, rebuild their faith and reverence, with the ‘of the universe for the object of their adoration. 4 happen so, but present indications in Russia that disbelief, chaos, indifference to either faith, or human beings, a war of offensive is a crime, War Is No Crime By Dity FRANK CRANE with the kaiser, and whether or not he | covenant of nations is to make it also a coula be held personally responsible and be | crime before the earthly law. other, we shall have to put a policeman | and by the fact that.war is no crime. |a gun behind that law, and pass an O’Sul- their dangerous hardware. the chief of police or any police captain permits | 6 oy geop! youmonr) | ste swear | A ware TP on A Luck wert Mose || On the contrary, the grateful boobs who When Poetry Goes Dry pus waste of time, and the consequent loss of || as wen USE A nevan J By TH JOCK HOTT] THU OER AM LIGHT rare} | FLIES. DID TA, paid the bills and furnished their sons for |) yi ag Ps o her Old King Cole) veers savinne heata. hv hes iceme! a? 2 3% Ar TRY TH in his royal sport, will probably Preigg P cti » the various beats, by having policemen | concemars on A No.8 OR A DUTEHESS Ar wee slaughter in his royal sport, wil pi “Whose name was w ter!” Keate wrote. ion to the anid See Wacce (/ teerh Daa? build him @ monument in the capitol square, | “Whore Pame was writ in water In the sight of God and of normal, decent | rag—it’s an ill wind that blows nobody an allbi.) On the Issue of Americanism There Can Frank Crane) nd the whole kernel in the nut of the And, sooner or later, in some way or van act compelling all nations to give up Todaxr Feem BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE Whore? He meant his own, for most are writ in booze! Regret it as we may, this much is sure, The wete have sopped up all our Literature. From old Anacreon to Walter Mapes, (King Henry's chaplain) all have squeezed the grapes From Persian Hafiz back to English Chaucer, All sing the flowing cup which needs no saucer. Horace to Heine, Beranger to Moore, All clink their glasses in @ common roar, Had it not been for Circe and her wine, How had Ulysses saved his brother-swine? If Cassius had not been a drinking fellow, How had Will Shakespeare plotted his Othello? If Persia had been dry, where were the thought The world has worshipped in the Rubajyat? If Rip Van Winkle bad not been a “wet,” He would be waiting for his Irving yet. If Burns had never tipped a Scotch decanter, Who would have ever heard of Tam O'Shanter? Could Falstaff charm without his sack? Could Robin Hood Deprived of nut-brown ale,” enchant his wood? Squeeze out old Rabelais! If you succeed, You make his lucubrations dry indeed. And so we modern bards, who know no drink, 3 Whore bottle holds two fingers of pale ink, 7 Who keep a hard-worked dictionary handy, Instead of sherry, hock and mellowed brandy, | rn mot our product, as you run across 1 What can you ask for—from a water faucet (Copyright, 1919, N. E. A) have replaced the old devout humility. “Our guess is that the Russian people will go to the extreme and deride all creeds, and probably wind ‘as godless as they today are lawless. : a “And then, in the Infinite’s good’ time, this people will merge washed in blood and tears, and purged thru na- nal misfortune, and, in humility, will rebuild its faith nd 4 ; 3 mand nations and races veer from extreme worship- Starshells ‘| Letters to Editor |/S°22." The League tions was in conflict to anarchy. - of reformation, of revolt against church | - . | States because, among other things, | @«teed reduction are usually marked by utter license. OS ee itien that | n 1 ference to the question on ions go on a drunk as thoroly as tired business eee | ata, Teton izousned tn pour columns during ta| Sl te power to fix a limit to our| come lait a wi and faith, to date, and good deeds have not become bled | tast fom days, |. e, that of the soldiers being held t work on French roads at $30 per| To this Ex.President Taft, reply-| “If tho nations of anate in the human animal that he keeps on being pious, Man does his heav- in Fréfice f n Z D . 3 * be ¢ Png ¢| ing, madd of whether he has a belief left in his old idols vat esis’ Go tev ‘ eon Bh poet aasen: ben inalaea, ab ote ge “Article VILL, provides that the ex the saint’s armor seems to the wearer a needlessly |nouse W part of the effort thru the whole A. E. F. now| be exceeded without the permission | t® expeed @ certain io on -aanssgysengptlyge 8 or ron yee. heing made, under agreement with the French gov: I found & « xpot 0} > 00 ernment whereby American units will restore bigh-| off my shoes every time I came into this house, but | 175 G99 to 200,900 tons of crushed stone, which will| the consent of our representatives |1'N be hanged if I'll go further.” < a te 4 be ¢ interior Lane has revamped his farms | cee A. } | bound to accept the limit and bind ined mostly from quarries leased by the} on the council, we shall be in honor | Secretary of the I t soldiers” program. f er $300,000,000 with which to launch the land coloniza-) «took heah, Rast Why doan you catch your | companies of the 211th engineers and five of the| this reasoning. The body which is | | “I quite agree that seheme. This siderably more than the last con-|*¢lf job? I'se done tired supportin’ you. Hab you | g12th.” | to accept the limitation is the con 2 Pg — vlate. y got dis yere sleepin’ sicknexs?” I think thie will explain why American soldiers | sress of the United States. Why | be fixed either for e was asked Sppropriate. | “Ah, Mandy, hab a heart! Ain't I done brung bull re is no doubt about soldiers—many of them—) you ‘nuader wash?” {timate reason. Ae far as the soldiers being held| States be bound by a representative | to try farming. Also, there are civilians who would ied Pans : ¢ for any reason whatever, the majority of them | Selected 7 bord cursengeeiht «seeded Pree to go back—or forward—to the land. Why not en-| FYROM THE MEN( Lr WOUsE, have no such idea. Any one who reads, will know | rant jn reapect 10 @ seatier of areat| saying. and 1, don 7 nit, that it is simply a matter of boats, tll they are all| hing oy program to include every one willing and able al Poe me. Another paragraph from the. same number | ce food? Sent for more ou Already the land colonization scheme has been tried out) Tat '* why ther “The return of the A. EB. F. is almost wholly al state of California at Durham, and there is no doubt |" " “"""""" °" | question of boats. At all times since the signing of it it being successful. Secretary Lane hopes to try the| Cleveland physicians have taken frdm the stomach | the armistice, the army has been prepared to load tieed the person on it, then dipe quite “THE th “That the United States should| than the executive BY N. D. COCHRAN | NUMBER SEVEN | for it seems manifest. The History| in all sorts of duties in the manage- By N. D. COCHRAN | of competitive armaments, with its! ment of the backward peoples. This | 9X said that the | dreadful sequel, is too fresM in the involves Article XIX. of the ¢on- minds of the peoples of the world stitution of the league of nations. with the Constitution of the United | ®t to recognize thé wisdom of an | Ex-President Taft says. If we have an| “Senator Knox conceives that it turns over to the executive coun- | 98Teed reduction, then there must be | there will be thrown upon the United ¢ limit to which the governments States obligations in respect to the tent to bind themselves to a lim itation, with so many dangerous iehbors, why should we hesitate | aid, that ft is due more to lack of knowledge of | ecutive council shall determine FOR | ™ . bs Uve council, and that the executive is more pleasing to believe that all men are naturally! | ’ alarm clock. fxiing conditions and facts, than to anything ele CONSIDERATION AND. AC.| {@ help tis world movement? ‘There [council might require the sending ot decency; but the lence appears to at hu-} e 4 wish to Insert an article from the last armament is fair and rea-| Posed. Our national falling has | mate, and to ex | and o ie mt a pose themselves to Joves the thuck, and has to get a mud bath about| Mrs. Hicks, © Maine housewife, is #0 painfully | ficuiveq of Februmry iat st » in proportion to the acale of | not to maintain enough armament. | ai sorts of dangers in remote coun- neat that she makes life miserable for her family. | ‘". ‘ ie ts force laid down in the program of | The argumen: ir. Knox involves | ‘often to have the need of salvation impressed on it. |>*' ‘ ne ree er ne haus. | “Thirty-five hundred engineers in Base Section |f FoggiatlestRr ol | che conclusion that the United Btates | ‘% . f the javelins of evil con-|0%, © ber rules t that « No. 2, far and near about Bordeaux, are starting | diearmament nulated by it, and] @ : o t | “It is a sufficient answer to this thout personal experience of the javelins |hold must remove their shoes before entering the | t) herair 120 miles of French roads, Their work is| these limits, when adopted, shall not | C4nnot enter into any ment POt | to say that there is no obligation on of the executive council. This|ment. Since #1S17 we have agreed leaves wholly to the governments | bY treaty with Great Britain not to ; chairs and I think it came off thore pante you wear | Vive damaged by American’ traffic the acceptance OF ejection Of tne ee eat oe ie ance never | 20 likely to do so. If it did, it would 4 in the shop.” | “One mundred miles of road will be entifely re| Proposed limitation, Validity (of that (reaty has never | manage the country over which it z F f Soldiers and Others A brief silence ensued, then a voleanic eruption. | surtaced in this base section, while the rest will re-| “Senator Knox says that as this) ak Sh d ae 7 it red was a mandatory with the fullest a arms for “Well, Mirandy, for the last 15 years I have taken | juice only general repairs. The work will require| recommendation will be made with | ther ot phegypecnor pe sent citer | discretion. The high contracting | party is able to withdraw from the treaty after a year’s notice, but the , and will ask the 66th congress for UNEQUAL DIVISION OF LABOR “The working force at present consists of six|OUrselves. It is difficult to follow | Principle Rabi toe ra whether | the mandatory would discharge its « roads in France, and it seems a very | Should the congress of the United | Obligation or a withdrawal there-|to which it objected, f from by a reasonable notice; but] “a mandatory is required to make that we should have such an agree-| 9 report at the end of a year to show it seems to me, goes without) that it has conformed to the limita- importance under the control of con-| better able to make a just recom: | power on the part of the executive | ot the “pore ane Sieber: grenn? mendation for our consideration! council to direct the campaigns of * recognize the wisdom of a reduction| Senator Knox also said that the | to gO into the dangers so eloquently of armament under « world plan! league involved us, as a mandatory,! pictured by Senator Knox.” . of Nations backward countries like Turkey and |in Africa, which formerly belong | to the central powers, because it would be obliged to govern as @ man- |datory under direction of the execu- Europe are con it of arma-| the part of the United States to ac cept obligations as a mandatory. It | does not covenant to do so, and it is | parties would lay down rules in ad- |vance, or the executive council would grant a charter under which trust, but the United States not be- a period should | ing obliged to act as a ‘mandatory xpiration of the | could decline to accept any charter know anybody |tions of the trust, but there is. no council,” |a mandatory or to compel its armies r, - ee lof tore be owed mere than @ ¥ without undue delay, all the transports available. thing in other states, first as experiments and then) ® man ™ firs he had good table manners. At present there are 300,000 to 400,000. officers and established features in the government’s reclamation rsh ies men ready for quick movement to the gang-planks; . | TOBACCO—NEXT | and of those, 6,183 officers and 139,211 enlisted men | a tralia, Canada, and other countries have found that| Now that hiccough fiuid has been given the su aaety Pay sewer onagr rae ie reeaainder og producers producing food on idle land a compre-|thumbs north sign, there is @ slight mumble being he porte. It is very easy to become impatient when one is ca as |passed that the néxt in line for the exit march is " J os a vols e plan of farm building must be undertaken. Youle easte. Not only making the works dry, but trying | Waiting. but if each one who voices his opinion in ot tell a man to go into a swamp, upon arid plain, or|t, tix it so you can't even have a. dry. smoke | %, ‘seontented fashion, really not knowing anything . : m é ¥ about the facts of the matter, stopped to think how ‘cut-over timber lands and settle down as once we sent) “There's a limit it would resiect in the attitude of the soldier who tal! ws to the prairies of the West. bo. overyihine, | still in France, they would be just a tittle more|,,Pefore long, prosperity will prob- spe r as the counter: : - ably be here, whether we do any- _ The United States must use every possible acre of farm) feet Sag wien careful in the expression of their Maas, cw, | thing to bring it or not; but by our or become a food importing country. The best way in| he was sold a ss attitude we can assure its coming h to compel use of idle acres is to make fields of them] ticket for « cir WILL WOUNDED BE INVITED? and accelerate the revival of indus- ined, irrigated, cleared, fenced, with farm buildings,| °¥* *treet parade Fditor The Star; Will the wounded boys of tho| ‘T%., The thing that is necessary is j j ij in exchange for sul,’ tan aniebae an attitude of confidence, of trust in arranged in community neighborhoods. che S61st supply, Slat division, that have been honoraMyi america's future, of appreciation of discharged from Camp Lewle tw i dime. invited “5 ths wiles in ‘honk ig tue $itt ‘aia gore ig cancer dae mon | “We have just come thru the great: returning now? est war in the history of “as I have a son from that division, who returned with| war that has weaned ween the wounded boys the same day that the 63rd arrived,| accumulated surplus, and, as a re- but they did not recelve any welcome. A MOTHER. | ult we lack, and all the nations of the earth lack, the things that, but SMILE AWHILE for the war, we would have thought BY ©. B. JOYFUL we never could do without, During e frained from purchas- Joe Kageff, with the 26th infantry in France, in| (he War we refral to be G e ful ith his lett 1 . ° to be more careful with hie lettere to Frond Wit pact ot the norusal purchases of the jon. It was his spelling in his letters which got him| 0 ‘ he had “pleked wu few ‘cuties’ in Fi a _ ind, there are vad sey Ma krag Ml wtf k isha haters by making, and buying the normal But his better half didn’t know what he meant. , A bon ioe vee tesa that the Ger-| She had read about French “cuties,” and she wrote oa pri giiy on Seite d r 4 mans threaten to combine with Russia and fight the | bac! : : : The oy org and re Seer are opposite ex- |allies. What with? jeu . ve teoe onent to be ashamed to confess that you! Sytt once: Bale its political remes, and there is small choice between them. Lee tb | r ‘cuties’ you" eee ek cea cme est reBgc vn y adavokds. cudvence pave Boon, 2ising wis Eeene ‘cuties’ when you've | in motion by our own demands, will modeled upon ours. re - - been married to me all these years, Why don't you! remain in motion for a long time;| ence in our great Old h. ¢. of 1. will stay with us as long as we have ices, mae iaicen to @ hospital Monday might, and an opera- | tel! ‘em you're married and they'll leave you alone?” nh oaring to have so many things we don’t need. ‘The funeral will be held at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon.— It took weveral letters to convince Mrs, Joe that lvhe New York Bvening World it was cooties and not “cuties” her, husband had been 2 picking up (Laugh loud and live long.) Prosperity is here if we will have Baker says that a divisional parade costs about a million dollars, but that the war department doesn’t mind the cost as much as the inconvenience. Not mind- h ; A ‘ on the heel ing the cost is getting to be our national habit. | oe on eee i ‘ v q History looks down the long corridor of the ages ohn Wetenn ia and smiles at sight of statesmen who think national gent who took all boundaries can be permanently fixed. rope each round of the treats, instead of a jolt, went home with ‘ : ‘ : nothing more than some dislocated puffers in his Granting the Japa the right to raise corn in Lower | vest pocket, While the other voter went from house California isn’t « serious matter unless the Japs expect |to house to find out it he was home. If he was, to raise more cain than corn, jthen that wasn't him. And if he wasn't in, then ae jthat was his roost, Gonna take some tall puffing to A good citizen is one who hopes for the best, pre- |b1Ow kibosh rings around the smoke-hay. pares for the worst, and grins regardless of the event. and South America, everything we can make, and once | closer relations with , Weaken fouta . i Evidently the Chamber isn’t prepared yet to view We often wonder why physicians don't establish it as the SkagIT loperating rooms in the Future Lies in Foreign Trade BY SEC. OF LABOR WILSON peace-time productions of industry at |°UF Melehboring republics to the] Private Leo J. Hoefling, motor south—the 20 republics of Central | transport corps, received 61 letters trong affection for the United | Were written on and after the armis- _ there are markets in plenty for} South America wants to cultivate SAYS PARENTS BEAT us, Our South ¢ business has been reatored to an|American trade, largely without. ef. HER TO TAKE HUBBY even keel these markets will be|fort on our part, has increased enor-| SAN FRANCISCO, April 11-- | gap that lies between us and pros- perity. This is not a great task if we ap- proach it in the spirit of understand: ing and faith, HERE ARE TALLEST, LUCKIEST YANKEES PARIS, April 11.—Here are the Jongest, proudest and luckiest dough- boys in the A. E. F., according to the | Stars and Stripes, the doughboys’ of- ficial newspaper: Private Benjamin F. Davis, casual — camp, hospital center, Savenay, lays honors to being the biggest member of the A. E. F, He measures 6 feet 11 inches and weighs 220 pounds. First-Class Sergt. W. Murasheff, U, 8S. A. A. 8, claims to be the father of the first child, born in France to a member of the A. E. F. Sergt. Mu- rasheff was married shortly after® arriving in France, a year ago, and the child was born January 3, the markets of Latin-America | from his brother in one day. All institutions are | tice day, One was 31 feet long and It has confi-| contained 3,500 words, republic, Pa BATS FER [operating rooms in the restaurants and remove ail the | While the cat was sleeping in the home of Edgar ae ee ttle silt weehng oe great poss Charatn that her father and step. ; ’ | Rickard, Li y, Va., po y C € ‘Until, re A great man is one who guesses right concerning | Wee... ‘bit ite left hind leg ott. Havghty rats crept up and) ‘There are, first of all, the markets |. ‘The future of America lies in for-| further violence, she pee 9 @ moot question. f Hindenburg says the kajser's flight saved G: of Burope—Europe, which has suf-|eign trade; the immediate task marry the man she hi eadfast! . hagas, Th ales. euved tha Mae ed Ger | acunee? a rat gets a chance to smile once in a ne more than <America;| ahead is the rebuilding of Europe. | refused to weet u Sean ei See * . r} pp ae, ; eee eae which needs raw materials and man-| There is work enoy ” A bictory isn’t a victory until it is nailed down. Well, what of it if there 4 Bill, is it true that the new revenue law is going| ufactured articles, food and ma-| to ‘accomplish it pull gh rer the in Rc dagorree padptpacntes an ————— coma, Want ot Itt there i an toe shortage next | to tax talking machines? inquired. hire. Jims, "= |ehinery. in enormous: quantity. "to | ata confident An ere et ee | ee aes court for an ann rotherly love seldom survives ae a ner? er to keep cold, so |, Yep," cheerfully replied Bill, “but don't. worry; repair the damages of ‘hi y a rise to authority. ‘what's the difference? they've Onis taut the mechAdlen) onea” y panes ae waa oe ae ab {s at hand, and our eff wildThe action was filed thru the SOLE GL LAPP Eaten a: aoeeeanoareer eae