The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 18, 1919, Page 6

ve Seattle Star per month; 3 months, 8; year, $5.00, in the Y on Outside the state, be per month. ) for & montha, or $9.00 per year, Hy carrier, city, ite per week. ed Peek-a-Boo With the Supreme Court } “The ways of the Heathen Chinee are peculiar.” So the ways of congress. Sometinu. we can’t find the ion. Sometimes we can. Here's a case where the rea- sticks out as plain as the nose on your face, Tt wears black funeral robes, and sits in a quiet room, that like a tomb, in Washington, D. C., and, naturally, solemn. It’s the United States supreme court, no The story concerns one of the few creditable efforts of late lamented congres two of ‘em, in fact, but both # one direction, toward one goal. The first effort failed Second one not failed—yet. The supreme court ’t got around to it. . The goal was, and is, a federal law, however indirect, prevent the bleeding of little children for profit in the hops and coal pits of industry—a child labor law, short, nation-wide in its scope, applying as well in back nd Georgia or Massachusetts as in the more advanced of the West and Middle West. When some time ago, congress decided exploitation of m in states that, for political and other r Ss, re d to abolish it, was a blot on the escutcheon of a free ntry, they didn’t dare say so in so many words, There the reactionary, old supreme court to declare any frank statement unconstitutional. But they thought could fool the supreme court by passing a law against tate shipment of child labor, goods. They passed ope. Congress underestimated those judges in their long robes. Also the eloquence of high-priced lawyers on l of big child labor employers from the South elsewhere. Sicked on by the lawyers, the judges ferreted and pounced like a cat on a rat, and !" went the law. t congress—house and senate—still held to stion. They passed another law. We find it ing and wary, like a hunted hare, a-crouch amidst rtwining verbiage of the new revenue bill. heal F proposes a 10 per cent tax on profits from child labor | tries, and stands upon the right of the federal gov-| mt to tax when, where and how it chooses. The is: Will it get by or not? But that isn’t the only question. One other is: How is the supreme court, aided and abetted by high- ficed corporation lawyers, going to be permitted to get pat this rate? 4 their, —EE—EE, Supt. Murphine has cancelled the passes on the icipal lines of the car men's union representatives. makes them more than ever real walling delegates. _- Should She Give Up Her Job There's a lot of agitation just at present over the burn- f of whether or not a wife who has been accustomed Iness work and who has been making a good salary at work should quit and mope around the, house after) s married or whether she should continue working. she or shouldn't she? To which the only rea-} on answer is: It all depends. And the main thing! d about the only thing on which it depends is the) jount of money the husband is getting. _ If the husband is making such a good salary that the i Wages are not needed in order to keep up the home) rovide the necessities and comforts of life then, by} eans. let the wife cut her business career short and place as the mistress of the house. ike her But if the husband is young and getting only a mod-| bch foe: i -EbITo There’s Alw a a ee 2. s Something to Interfere With a Man’s Resolutions By Webster WEL CIGARS FoR € Morrnas, + JUST Warr To Ste Web CArY QUIT ‘Em THAT's Firse! 1 pO HOPE You a 2-9 PFAnatic all And if you want anything you must be salary and it will be a real sacrifice and worry for) willing to pay for it. to give up her position and her salary, then by all) Jet her continue working until such time as the} are losing sight of. They want something increases to the point where the wife's longer needed. trite been saying that marriage is a partnership) more clearly demonstrated than in| These are axioms a good many people yet they balk at the price. What we want is peace. We want war modern marriages where both the man and the wife inue in order to secure the money with which me. of keeping the wife in ignorance salary and your business is out of date. constantly showing themselves just as as men and even better. Surely no mere the household as economically 4s the usual So, when it to the question of the wife working ; marriage or not, it is the best pian to leave it almost up to her. ; ~ She'll make the right decision, never fear about that! Garbage man was the 10th man arrested in the whisky conspiracy case. Evidently the conspirators were of the opinion that booze got better with garbAGE. _Live While You're Living | (Text: There's no smile on the face of a tombstone) With ali of your pride and with all of your pother, _ How much do you know of your grandfather's father? Reducing it down to its ultimate decimal, You'll admit that its fraction is infinitesimal! ee Scarce a deed that he did, scare a word that he uttered, An oath that he swore, or a prayer that he tuttered! "And yet he wan kissed, he wax cursed, he was mated, | He waa lauded and loved; he was harried and hated. Yet after the rites of his last cemeterial, He's erased from the page, from his birth to bis burial. Bo you, who've forgotten who chanced to forefather you, Bven so your descendants wil! soon cease to bother you, In the midst of their marketings, mummings and marriaging#, They'll have no time at all for your praise or dieparagings. As you outlaw your debt to the past and preceding, So you cancel your claim on the ages succeeding, Hence the Here and the Now, those who favor or fret you Ate the only ones not yet inclined to forget you. fo go your way gaily, while getting and giving, And take notice daily to live while you're living! Distant relations are best appreciated while they remain distant.) (Copyright, 1919, N. B. A) Even with the elevated road in operation, one would acarcely say that the passengers were getting a taste of high life. Our guess is that the league constitution wont contain anything that will keep European nations from protecting their citizens and property in Mexico, One reason why the league constitution will need revision in future years, is because the present vision ts a bit clouded by selfishness. In Again, Out Again—HAGEN. stop. We want to get back to business, to ai in quiet with our family and to enjoy | life. i We want peace. But the price of peace ‘is sacrifice. We must give up something jif we wish to get something. | What we must give up is a little slice of jour independence, our national pride and jour right to do as we please. We must \ give up our privilege of declaring war when- lever we feel like it, and we must give up jour right to go about with an army and ‘navy so big as to be a menace to other) nations, leity, with policemen and courts and a |peaceful populace, unless you give up your ‘gun, give up your right to settle your ‘own disputes with a club, and give up your |right to take the law into your own hands tad punish those who offend you. | So in the highways of the world there can be no peace until individual nations sacrifice their right each to be its own | judge, jury and sheriff in any dispute with | {another nation. | National sovereignty is a good thing. ‘It is so good that some of us throw a fit | whenever we are asked to abate one jot or \ tittle of it. | But there is something better. It is the | welfare of the world, of all humanity. | Those who refuse to let go of any of ‘our national sovereignty are prec’ like ithe cowboy who says: “By jingo! ll not give up my gun. I won't leave it to any court or law-officer to say when, where or left to right ther are; left to right they are: U. &. N. RB. F., werography. You cannot eat your cake and have it, too. | with its waste, destruction and murder to | You cannot get law and order in your | war's Tins Tit AN AMTI-SOBACCO eampaice ttt The Price of Peace BY DR. FRANK crane ! (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane whom I shall shoot. No, siree; I'm a he man. I'll do as I please.” That kind of talk may do in a mining camp, in conditions of primitive civilization, but it would plunge New York or Chicago! into anarchy as bad as now exists in Mos- cow. That kind of idea is what was the matter with Germany. “Deutschland Uber Alles,” national vanity and cowboy boasting lead straight to ruin. Those who repel the idea of America’s giving up the least bit of her sovereignty are simply American Junkers. And these ity, Prude Claw m 4 of we » Ax the naked buns ink to the » shelter the hor visit thore in fp administer unto the sick THE SEVEN ChoSss natant rome (The Double Crom @ ned in 1 the Iror mentic ¢ same breath with THE SEVEN DEADLY Anger, Envy, Sloth, 1 N LIBERAL try Must seven stare of the have five senses, b bad seven taste and named thought bear has they smell SEVEN WONDERS OF THE of Eeypt, Han Halicarnasus is of Khodes, iympian Jove tr ¢ Gar Temp! Pha | Statue of the SEVEN WONDERS THAT RE WONDERS of all seven Thursday, The most famous Tuesday, Wednesday ay! oe j SPLASH, SWISH, SPLATTER, SPIDM. April showe the Easter bonnet. |hold a family eplash wouldn't make our dispositions lope mittent temperament of April wea judgment lefthanded. We're fish ou: mean a pew bunc If the April sho reunion and decide If we are going to get rid of the horror }\\ of war in the world, every nation must give wp a little. That alone is the path of civilization. We never got a United States until each separate state gave up some of its rights for the sake of the Union. And we will never get peace, prosperity nation gives up a bit for the sake of the common good. Those who claim they want peace and a league of nations, yet are unwilling for their own country to let go any of its privileges and powers, simply have taken leave of|James Harvey Hart [being sued by | mediately common sense. You cannot eat your cake and have it, too. SMILE AWHILE Smiles are «miles only when the heart pulle the wire.—Theodore Winthrop. Something of a person's character may be dis covered BY observing when and how he smiles. Some people never smile; they merely grin. A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam {# to the landseape; tt embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.—Lavater Loud jaughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good renee never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. A man of parts and fashion i# therefore only neon to smile, but never heard to field. Bovee. Out to Make U. S. Plane First Across the Atlantic | ‘These are the men in the transatlantic section of the office of the director of naval operations, Washing Commander J. H. Towers, in chas Commander J. H,. Towers, in cha Maison; Commander H. ©, Richardson, construction corps; Lieut. Commander Patrick N. 1. tions; Liewt. Commander K. EB, Byrd, navigation; Maj. B. L, Smith, marine corps, material; Lieut. J. Bellin, |«pring.” and the reign of law on earth until each poemsters mutter when caught unexpectedly in an laugh.—Chester- | Lieut, Commander G. de Chevalier, operations and a Lieut. Commander G, de Chevalier operations and} ja inexpensive, and is stuff which But causes we'll “the suits the April deluge would listen very fancy | They write the joy of gentle April rain, When they are high and dry bebind HOW a transi whe Brook » N. hie 18yearold wife. Love is just as Understan Priday and inatead of wpilling on the installment plan, it that tobasco afier their three-week honeymoon, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise IN Lie ANYTHING TO PREVENT WAK rs © Adams and Warre who was Hoston, saw the ond to Lexings the moonlit village lexington the r Minw ) under Capt, SINS t tra p the «r to receive them t o touer t firet oute the Sixth vanla ingtor War when they ARTS Loe For Loyal “Marys” and Penitent “Peters A GOOD FRIDAY SERMON BY THE REV, CHARLES STELOLE the story of us’ resurreetia ot troubled soul a put t ut the ancients WORLD eboulé bring bape (to thoumans dens of Babylon 4, od le of “He a runs ppeared first te was ¥ out Very ark—she had st whom Jesus had cast “seven these m ALLY ARE Sunday, Monday Sat tur | resurrection had vanished. But this woman, who had suffers 6f hell, hounded by the devils of men | | went out to be near the body of the One healed her And this faithfulness was amply appeared first to Mary Magdalene There's another litte human touch that’s ene’ aging to many of us Peter—who had denied Him not k w Jesus when accused by re bad t seen with Him at heart and brooding beca: if cowardice. But when the divine me er sent word to tf disciples that Jesus had riren from the dead, and thi mY here's, what he who h h of Mowers for owers would only to jump In one rewarded ided. The inter ther, twists our t of water when up for lzards out of luck when we polish up for sunshine. To make April spat ters worse, why | do the poem smiths wiggle a loowe pen over the charms of April showers? And describe it swearing he 4 that was alc where, jee. see HIM. the man who need particularly to Here was a special word for it most There are Marys and I . the world tod to whom the resurrection message will mean much- those for whom much HAS been done and thoke fi as, “spring's joy-| whom much MAY be done thru the gospel that th ous tears?” Can't | resurrection teaches—the promise of a new life see any reason - - —— for sweet rhym FINE, PROFESSOR ing over the y abr” ta Ge If the young ma ar over and squeezes t words thore | band of the young y sitting next to him in t church pew and the young lady in turn takes hi eyes off the minister and turns them on the you hand crusher, and then if both the young man @ the young lady forget what minist is saying because they are so busy smiling at ead other—if all this happens during the service, Ww about it? Professor Hall, of Purdue university a former mif ister, has this to say about it Let ‘em hold han and smile; there is no less dangerous sparking plac in the world than the chureh 2 if set in verge. a window pane! nm one is elder. ¥., aged 87, ie They parted im- THIN, NERVOUS PEOPLE NEEDBITRO-PHOSPHATE What It Is and How It Increases Weight, Strength and Ne ’ Force in Two Weeks’ Time in Many Instances and to enrich the blood.” |SHOULD BE PRESCRIBED BY EVERY DOCTOR | }><rss stronsty ang nerve to | AND USED IN EVERY HOSPITAL Says Editor of “Physicians’ Who's Who” Take plain bitro-phosphate, ta the advice of physicians to thin, deli- cate, nervous people who tack vim, energy and nerve forces, and there seems to be ainple proof of the ef- |fleacy of this preparation to war- recommendation. More- | rom the countless treatme lly being advertised for fleshy, bust, ‘and and angles by of health and dently thousands of ten and women | who keenly feol their excessive thin- poss. ‘Thinness and weakness are usual ly due to starved nerves. Our bod need more phosphate than is ce tained in modern claim there is nothing that will sup- | | ply this deficioncy so well a# the organic phosphate known among | ruggists as bitro-phosphate, which | old by most {all druggists under a guarantes of | satisfaction or money Kk. By feod- | ing the nerves directly, and by sup- rn those wi anaemig m tike @ na u (adulterated substance such as bit plying the body cells with the neces- | Phospha ou will soon Sary phosphoric food elements, bitro- | SO ye rey resul| sphate quickly produces & wel- | > of, BOtve emerey. Steel transformation in the appear- y and mind and power ance; the inerease tn weight fre- | ran quently being astonishing. | Ritro-Phoaphate Clinical tests made in St. Cath. | of the organic ph erine’s Hospital, N. ¥. C. referred to in the ard Dispensatory cellent tonie and preparation which nervous, organic phosphate; beth patien claim they have not felt as strong well for the past twelve yeara. his increa weight also tabiet is manufacty iet accordance with the U. nacopoela test requirement | Phosphate is therefore not |Patent medicine and should m mfused with any of the n. lessness and lack of ener nearly always accompany excessive b dull eyes Physicians and pitals every | where are now recognizi its mer- it b ita use in eve inereonng vantities, Frederick Kolle, M. D. ditor of York | Physicians’ w s says “Bitro-Phos- pha should be prescribed by every should not be used by any doctor and used ip every hospital! dees met desize te pat om regt | of Baltimoresy