The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 17, 1919, Page 6

out of city, SOc per month; 3 months, € monthe. TS; year, $6.00, im the Gutstde the state . or $9. er week Clearer Vision An oculist says the eye of most persons is undergoing "a@ change to a shorter range of vision. y This is by reason of the growth ofc ¥ of the rural districts—the city dwelle : accustomed to fixing his eye upon nes quently a waning power to see distances. City people, in the nature of their occupations, are red to focus only upon objects at le than arm's Yet most of these had grandfathe azed out over the hills and fields ity population over having become r objects, with open and habitually distant objects. This oculist has many figures and observations to prove % we are becoming a shorter visioned race. ' Among these is the proof by exception -that those have remained rural inhabitants and those with occu in the open, like sailors and mountain guides, still n their power to see distanc ‘If man’s eye is changing to accommodate the co living in closer proximity, is not his whole organism anging and to an increased social sense? ff one sense, that of seeing, is undergoing a change to accommodation of congestion, why are not all his particularly thinking and feeling, undergoing a like e to finer regard for the right of his neighbors and more harmonious social state’? , Social problems intensify with a closer proximity of P nditions The difference between city and country is noticeable n now—in the legislative representation of the two. The rural legislator cannot see the problems of the y, and the city legislator cannot see those of the coun * their range of vision is different and by reason of a ent living environment. This has at times been the subject of very wide po- breaches. © An organization was formed some years ago that pro- to make Greater New York a separate state by ¢on- act, and for the reason that the rural legislative entatives could not see the problems of a great city The late Tom L. Johnson, while mayor of -Cleveland, Bes proposed dividing the state into two legislative units 7 to separate the cities of Ohio from its rural popu- slo But these legislative differences in all states are being red by a more effective and less militant means. ' Easy mieans of communication and transportation are ‘making the two classes of population of one vision. The automobile has already reduced the difference n the city and the country 75 per cent, for the that it has eliminated time tables. means of transportation and communication are effective in correcting the social vision as glasses in r the individual eye vision. means of transportation and communication are ‘unto near and distance glasses for focusing those of and short vision on common problems, and THEY THEREBY MAKING ONE PEOPLE. in “Falldowns” | A epics med when congress assembles there will investigations of the manner in which our and navy departments “fell down.” Much of this be mere partisan clamor. There will be added the noise of some darlings who think their brilliant amply rewarded. States is not a military nation. We have great military machine. Result was much orgy is interesting to refer to revelations re- at the battle of Jutland. second and third line of defense. There it the last word in things naval was spoken Yet here is what Jellicoe tells in sober On gowe fleet, upon whose security depended Eng- , had to use harbors not adequately defended. had to use harbors where there were not proper and working “facilities. destroyers. the Germans had invented a thing called a which the Britons knew not! tht and gunfire infinitely superior to anything the Eng- jad ever attem - And finally, while English projectiles from big naval upon the surface when they hit armor e German projectiles went thru the armor plate exploded in the vitals of the ships. Incommunicado : Altho I wear a wound within, None knows how deep the thrust hath been, For true emotion ts too great Ever to be articulate, And utterance becomes a sin. My prow is even as others are; I make no moan, I show no scar, But in the innermost recess Devoted to my own distress My grief is shrined in holiness, And not even I may enter there ‘With sounded word or spoken prayer. But there my spirit, hushed and kneeling, Reveals itself without revealing And feels beyond the bounds of feeling. (Copyright, 1919, N. EB. A) Peace delegates complain that false news is spread concerning their activities, The inevitable result of keeping the public's business under a bushel. That guarantee of “existing” territorial integrit won't do China any good if Japan grabs all she santé before the guarantee is signed. Karl Helfferich saya the czar caused the war by mobilizing his troops. We were under the impression that Belgium caused it by being so little. Everybody has enough strength i a good kabit, ig) ‘ength of character to quit attempted had to be improvised. Just| \| The Thrill That Comes Once i s who lived in } On the Issue of Americanism There Can supposition both by Britons and the rest} found itself outclassed by the Germans in the num-| the foe had effected a combination of search-| tain has “ruled the waves” for centuries. Her navy! been her insurance against harm. It is not only her| AN \\ PINK TIGHTS DRYING OUTSIDE THE DRESSING TENT had been married for six years he an- | aggro Daa haga Pags ecto p y der Sigeetonigieeonsiniestinlon a we . weaiat | entirely destroyed by the earthquake Midian GAs aa nounced to her he could no longer resist | ree nroke out immediately afterward among @ the call of the tropics. She astounded him | ;uins. ‘The number of lives lost was ¢stimated at by replying that in that c she would go | 4,000. 4 STARSMELLS | |LETTERS To Tre EDITOR noT NEWS (Net Yet When Mayor Hanson arcives back home, Council man Oliver T. Erickson wil! meet him at the depot and take him for @ tour around the city in the “muny” cars. To keep the “wet” goods safe from official tempta tion, Logan Billingsley has been appointed official guardian of’ the customs warehouse. see WOULD MAKE ANY CHAP SMART To arrest him on a boose theft charge naturally makes Ex-Sergeant Fred SMART. eee “What do I want with more money—or what doen my father want with more?” asks John D. Rockefeller, We don't know, Johnnie, honest we y Admiral Jellicoe, in command of Britain’s| don’t but we're just naturally curious to know what's | C'mon, tell us eee MONEY (What it dors) the answer. Flies. Makes the mare go. Talks. Never fills pay envelopes as they ought to be. A FINE NEST EGG! Farmer W. EB. Yancey, Wills Point, Tex. buried $4,000 in his garden “for safe keeping.” A hen scratehed It ap and made a nest in the bilix, hope lessly ruining $400. see Wind blew a dollar bill out of the hand of Albert Coon, meat peddier at Den Vt, and mentally he kissed {t good-bye, but late that afternoon when four miles farther along the road a dollar bill was blown into his wagon. Belleves it the same bill. eee Thomas Austin Yawkey, 14-year-old heir to $20, 000,000 extate, spends 50 cents a week on himself. eee The first dollar a boy earns and the last om, dollar a man has are the two biggest dollars | in the world. | Congressman Snyder-—-The gentleman says we now owe 24 billion dollars, Congressman Kitehin--1I said 23 billion dollars, but an extra billion now does not make much differ ence.—The Congressional Record, eee World coal supply is little*over 4% trillion tons. And now reckoned, it will run out about 4,000 years from now, For our part, we reckon there is one thing most of us are sure about. That is, if they don’t find a substitute for coal as a fuel, then excuse us if we should refuse to be head of the fuel administration 4,000 years hence, eee WRAP THE WRIST, MR. BUTCHER Meat prices are coming down. In a short time they will be in reach of even the poorest millionaire, The day is coming when you ean stop off at the meat market with your pay check, and come home with a portion of meat, and the broken envelope. Can't bave both meat and money, so the meat will fit neatly in the pay envelope, Folks wouldn't yow! so bard over the price of meat if the bone and butcher's wrist didn’t take up #0 much space in the 16 ounces, Or even if they'd wrap up their wrists with the bones, The cause for tall prices js laid to expensive feed and steep freight ‘em @ la Fitz After all is said Must Taldorf, and shipping ‘em in taxis! and undone, the only thing for us to do, is go buy rates. for cattle, be feeding eurselves a set of tin horns. We're the goatat | EDITORIALS — na Lifetime. Be No Compromise —By Webster! One Girl BY DK, FRANK CRANE (Copyright, 1919 by Frank Crane) He protested that she was not strong enough to stand the hardships. I have just had a date with a peach. | with him. She was a fluffy little thing, complexion of peaches and cream, come hither eyes, rose-bud mouth, shapely hands, exquisite After considerable argument they com- 7 promised (even as you and |) and she had q her way. She has never been sick, while form and dazzling smile. Oh, Boy! nate was a. partioly pe pe |her husband has had several attacks of along and we had our lunch in Frank the feve She has proved herself to be an intrepid explorer and tireless traveler. She has become a crack shot, a good swim- mer and a skillful sailor. i a : I am afraid this Mrs. Osa Martin is going to haunt my dreams and I shall often think of the gentle and lovely yp Pam pa ry twice . 4 her perilous way thru the tangled jungles, wiih ages then some, and what do overcoming inconceivable obstacles 7 "This darling angel child of twenty-five ia Pep reg Fig go i ae ae Re that you would expect a side by side with her mate. ve “ “Nothing but strawberries, sugar and | After all, it th the adventure that coun! cream, Oh, youth, youth! And sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam,” was an explorer! } She has just returned from a 14 months’ trip in the South Sea Islands, where she and her husband had been making motion pictures of the savages and studying their Case's perfectly nice hotel. And I looked at this charming little body that seemed to have stepped right out from the front row of Mr. Ziegfeld’s ag- gregation of baby dolls, I looked at her, I think I have said that twice, and I looked Tomorrow the 18th of April in 1781 the British forces evacuated Camden, 8. C, after burning the jail, large quantity of O* habits. d mill, part of the village and ao As I listened to her tell of her experiences | private stores. ae I found them hard to believe. For this | In 1791, op the 18th of April, Louls XVT of Frases and the royal family were arrested by the populace NN “tN nh mG dainty china Dresden doll had tramped thru wild forests, stepping over crocodiles and dodging spiders as big as crabs, and meeting cannibal kings and doing all sorts of wild while on their way to Saint Cloud and compelled to return to Paris. On the 18th of April, in 1798, Sir Sydney Smith, a noted English admiral, was captured by the French between France and Engiand. Sir ‘ ve é i she ha o y a | during the war N77 oem oe 5 been re peo “ig ae A Sydney Smith was captured in the harbor of Havre \ native ane v “4 intendec her the on or Je Grace and sent to Paris, from whence he escaped of being his 26th wife and his degjgn | ana crossed the channel in a small rowboat to Eng was spoiled only by the unexpected arrival | tana Ce. a British cruiser. is w Bi In 1847, on the 18th of Aprf, during the Mexteas | eS A nit ae adc gal This was on Big war, the battle of Cerro Gordo was fought Gea "Numbers Island, where before her “the hand of the white man hud never set foot.” She is contemplating another trip within a few days, when she will go into the in- terior of New Guinea, the wildest of the | Winfield Scott, with 12,000 men, defeated Gen, Sante Ana, with a force of 10,000. 4 On the 18th of April, 1898, the United States senate and the house of representatives declared jota® ly that the Cubans “fre and of right ought to be free and independent,” aff empowered President Moe | wild, the land of fierce natives and fiercer | jiniey to use the land and naval forces of the | fevers. | United States to their utmost capacity to carry the She is a Kansas girl and married for | resolution into effect. This resolution constituted _ our declaration of war aghinst Spain. On the 18th of April, in 1906, the great Caltfo earthquake destroyed the business section of Francisco, The first quake was recorded et 5:13 a The buildings on an area of 10,000 acres were love at the age of 16. She discovered that her husband had one dominating mania, the South Sea Islands. One day after they THE SOLDIE ‘S PRAYER | | Editor “The Star: - “O God, f there be a God, save my soul, if 1) < have a soul.” ‘Phe redconted iad on the field of | Waterloo when he sent up this prayer to heaven! 4 was in the condition of #0 many of his fellows that! no wonder ft is that the church has set aside 40| VG days of each rolling year for us to reflect seriowsly | A “Have I a roul In very recent | cy times a shop girl in New York, hearing the word | Gis “soul” spoken, anked innocently, "What is a soul? | We do not need to remedied of our bodies. | | They are continually intruding their wants or thelr) mishaps upon us, but the soldier who wrote to | his Indy love, “I have lost an arm and a leg and am in honor bound to release you from your promise of marriage mm to a wife man,”| was porsibly startled by hy Bring home} flesh and bones enough. to hold your soul and my promise will be gladly kept | | ‘The wounded man had his testament of course | Christian societies thruout the land had seen to that—but an -empty sleeve and the need of @ cork! | é— were demanding more attention just+ then than | | that little thin book in his knapsack | As regards the immortal but upobdtrusive part of | man's makeup, let the charch bells speak with more/ | than usual clearness during the season when, as/ | Charles Lamb has it, there are six extra Sundays | in the week. | | That comfortable error that death ends all has on the ques be Toasted Cheese Here’s’a dish that Snow Flakes are particularly adapted to. cheese on e ~ toast in a quick oven. The t is an tizing, satisfying hunch. “outsold ty tise « Don’t ask for crackers, say Snow nawer, RasRe Teves | taken so strong a hold on so many of Adam's descendants that at all seasons the belis cannot ring es. ae | too loudly their ery, “Come to church! Come to} By } ehurch!* F. M, B. Y | g i our grocer can supply you. . MUST HAVE LEAGUE Editor The Star: Some worthy gentlemen in the! one by one, taken blows at the league! of nations idea, The ciroummances,awhich made the Monroe Doctrine necessary, no longer exist. Spain| is powerless to colonize America, and we may trust England and France to respe our rights on our continent, To harp on “entangling alliances” is to devote ourselves to anachroniam still more violent. We made ourselves one when we entered the war in positive disregard of all entanglements that might be involved. The world of 1917 wns not the world of 1793, Presumably the world will be as | closely knit together in the future as in the present, and to*think that we can again isolate ourselves is not only to ignore the war's lesson; it is to violate the postulate of present world conditions. As there are some opponents of the want the prewar comfort 6thers who desire wortd itrol for America outside the league, ‘They say e should always be the one great nation,” and hold the big stick.” America, however, does not choose to be the world’s autocrat; senate have, own league who and isolation, there a: she does not want the place Germany has striven Ds for. She has espoused the cause of the small nations, an the weak and oppressed peoples, The league of nations must some time come, for without it international morality cannot exist, While we should not be hasty in accepting it, we must by all means receive its principal ideas and execute its fundamental program. 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