The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 21, 1919, Page 6

a oa New Wars and New Maps 1 Bs sional military “© for fhe peace of war!” said a profe: . He doesn't to an American correspondent at Paris. the business of fixing up a peace. And of course, the fact is that nobody ever had any fun making the map of the world over. Alexander, Cae: Ar, Hannibal, Napoleon—didn’t they all take a hand at it nd didn’t they all go flooey with Nemesis chasing them With a big broom? Is there any harder job in the world than trying to Mail down and fasten stiff national boundaries that insist Pen being fluid and changing as the drifts of population the drives of economic development? * * It is this very thing that is taken care of in the big Outlines of the league of nations plan. It is indefinite at 1 ny points because no man or group of men can by. Hpossibility fix the lines of the future developments of the} tions small and large. © In former peace meets, they drew the map they w anted signed up the peace treaties and went home to talk bout the new map just as tho the new map was for keeps d all time. Such maps have always had to be drawn} Over again after new wars. | “A new war and a new map,” has been the sidgan of } predatory autocrats of the world thru past centuries. | theory of Woodrow Wilson, Jan Smuts, and the demo-| sti proponents of a league of nations might be summa : “Instead of always new wars to make new maps} iy not try a new way for the peoples of the world to the maps when they want to and doing it by thods of peace?” z Diversity of Opinion A Paris newspaper of reaction is quoted as saying that way to handle the Hungarian soviet government is n it in blood.” A famous bandmaster in one of our large cities says feed more music because “the more music the les vism.” >) The most persistently advised cure for Bolshevism is The Bolsheviks themselves are feeding Russia with anda and it is a saying there that “books are the pest thing in Russia.” Dut of the many wilderness voices that cry at us how ‘Save the world, we must be learning something-——we, the ’ e American citizen. | Guizot, the great French writer who produced a “His- bry of Civilization,” laid his central! emphasis on the point the distinguishing characteristic of civilization and s is “diversity of opinion.” | Ve remember one young man in peg top pants who lay! fampos green one spring and nearly thought his head y fying to get at exactly what Guizot meant by “diversity | opi tion,” because it seemed to be the most important in- nt necessary for lasting and genuine human progress. % we understand. In a big-and a real way there * more rapid rate of human progress just now than * time in all history—if it is true that “diversity of is the distinguishing characteristic of civilization.” o ge . : Appreciating Things 4 specialigt was about to remove the ‘bandages frem rcs eyes who had been blind since birth. custenat do you want most to see?” the great doctor ers and a home,” replied the expectant one. . patient was led into a garden and his eyes bared + light of day. As the flowers and their colorings Photographed in his brain, he stood as tho turned 4 he breathed, “it is wonderful, beautiful. 1) * dreamed such marvels existed,” and tears of joy) down his face and onto the grass at his feet. = was then led to another part of town, as it was i dark. Placing him before a window, the doctor} removed the bandage and allowed him to gaze into f He leaned eagerly forward for a better look, | _~ straigthened up, and, turning to his friend. said, “Take! back. I can stand no more. How can I EVER become to the joys and wonders of this new world?” Snobbery _ ; Snobbery stands in the way of democracy. So we are , And there’s a lot to it. | | Snobs and democrats (small “‘d") never get along. One| to show off. The other lives to work and be real. ! sey look at life two different ways. )Democracy means a man should pay for his living by ing some sort of work that produces wealth or helps the _get thru the, day better off. The first and high! n by which we know the snob when we see him coming } that he always tries to look as tho he never works, ing a born gentleman who knows ail about the eclairs! veclat of the elite. “In Americanizing America, we must make the im-| rtant question about a man, “What can he do?” or “What! ] done?” rather than the question, “How much has 2” or “Where did he come from?” | app five Six months to pay for your share of the Victory jou can’t refuse. There isn't any excuse that will get around these terms. \| | } a The manufacturers tell us there will be no decrease | in the price of clothing, but the weather man tells us ‘there will soon be a decrease in the quantity needed. It may be that Wilson summoned the George Wash- ington just to remind European statesmen that there was once a man who couldn't tell a lie. i The average man thinks a strong central govern- ment was necessary in war, but is afraid it will become a strong central government in peace. 4 One reason why a new-formed government doesn’t stick in Europe, is because so many things stick to its fingers. ” nee | The little peoples in southern Europe were “pro- tected” from their enemies, But who will protect them from their friends? The fact of class may not excuse Bolshevism, but it explains it, linto a dimly lighted room. | business.” | How to Torture. Your Wife. HELLO, RAY! EVERYTHING ALL FIXED? THA'S Gooo, t's Goin Tw Be SOME paery | Ney ~ watt You RE DEAD RIGHT, é RAy, THey’O PUTA DAMPER Ort TH WHOLE Busimesst { WELL, IF THEY Go | You CAN Count me our! YO RATHER. STAY Home | Art’ READ TH Encyc LoPEOIA HELP THE GARTER BITES Mise Coche Moore, 17 years old, Washington, D.C. was bitten on the foot by a garter enake. ose GEE! IT'S GREAT TO TAKE THESE NAVY TESTS! Dr. Sree Basudeba® who claims to be more expert on matters of jove and sex than the average male | (policeman, don't wink your eye, being, says that plump girle are loved just as much | cating is the very air as thetr thin sisters. Dr. Basudebm claimed to have proved his theory in this manner Twenty-seven blindfolded U. 8. sailorn were led Next eight girls of vary ing sizes, all lightly clad, were brought before the sallore. ‘Then, asserta the doctor, 26 of the blind folded satiors picked one girl, the stoutest of the lot. Then the sallors were permitted to And yet, some foolish persoms keep right on saying “love is blind.” om . “NOBODY HOME” WITH HIM “Why didn't you send your man to mend my tlectric doorbell, as you promised?” “He did go, madame; but as he rang three times and got no answer he concluded that there was nobody home."\—Boston Transcript oe DISSIMILAR Wife—-My new spring bat has fwn't ft a poem? No; Ie don't have to pay for Editor's arrived dear. See Editor change poetry —Ex one BEATING FATHER TO IT What did your little ones say when you told them Santa Claus?” wt there is n “They axked me Washington Star was just finding it out.” eee THE LEAGUE OF NATION-AL HYMN “Why do you object to the league of nations?” “On gmusical grounds. After singing ‘My Country ‘Tis of Thee, all these years, I don't want the mental effort of changing to ‘Our Countries, "Tia of Those.’ ” Washington Star. QUEER BEAST “Man ig the only a vimal that user tobacco,” the prohibitionist who had joined the league “Yer only animal waid Anti-Tobacco “ replied the Rounder. that is always minding other people's eae With a good pair of ears you will hear much cee One—I'll way men are getting dippy these days Why, yesterday I saw a fellow wearing @ green straw hat! Her green Pal—You don’t mean Itt straw hat! My goodness, silly, don't you think? (One was wearing a Her Pal a pink straw.) . “Last year 600,000,000 the United States, A man wearing @ wome men are #0 hat of purple straw and . beer bottles were made in “Walking on a balance rail," asserts Miss Doris Franklin, Kansas City treacher of corrective gym nastics, “cures nervousness, drives away the blues, develops poise and forees the proper use of both feet.” Yet mothers will seold little boys for walking on fence the o- WHILE WE'RE CURING THINGS, TRY THIS; A cure for hiccoughs bas been found by an acck dent in the case of Henry Kerns, of Palco, Kan. who suffered for several weeks from the malady. He went to the home of his daughter in Hays for treat- | ment and the first night there fell down mJong stair: way, sGstaining many severe bruises, bul the hic: coughs »were cured, Up to the time of his accident his hicecoughs were getting worse. o eee A. W. Williams, Ijameville, Md., swallowed “a beef bone three-quarters of an inch long, one-quarter inch wide and oneighth inch thick, @ year ago, It lodged in his throat and doctors coujdn't get it out. After swallowing the bone he lost weight steadily, failing from 190 pounds to 140, the bone. The other day Mr. Williams: eoughed up. ? eh & wee the girl | they picked, and 21 immediately changed their minds, | “And he is also the | * a : k : THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, APRIL 21, 199. “On the Issue of Americanism Zhere Can By Webster. (7 , THE PRICE OF VISION WHa 6 Ar 2! Mac DUGGEST THAT we WviITe OUR SA-AY, DOES HE WANTA CRAB THIS Parry PI! OTHER. AFFAIR. WHEN THe y Weer wiTH U5. RUINED THe Erenee Evertin &! WHA DDYA THirtk OF THAT 71! MAC WANTED To Aik TH DIRECTORS OF CUR CONCERM ‘To TH PoKeR. GAME SATUROAY MiGH T! WHY, THEY Oon’T PIT IN A-TaLLe! - MAC'S CRAzy! f *° sTBADY, TH A JINGLE BY MR. EDDY The wife and I are in town, in Seattle of renown, | Just rubber-necking around thie big city on the sound, Verdant from the woods are we and several things we nee that, oh! quite amazing seems to hicks more used to teams than trolleys, ‘The town ts dry, but ‘ware! Intoxt Hutt, bing, a long breath or, | maybe two, one draws, and anything to do neeme | dead easy. , Seattle just puts one on his mettle, will | not let you rettle down and jog along serene. For | peace and quiet another scene seek. ‘Cause here it's | jazz along, breese along and sing @ song of purpore. | The autos whize and squawk in @ way that in din | tracting to wife and I ax acrons the street we hie ‘The street cars rumble. and clang. With a slam and a bang everything’ core. ‘fo, ginger up, old man, | by taking a sup of Seattio spirit rare," raid wife to I “Have a care said yours truly “Tis risky for hicks to get so frisky. Let's back to» Podunkville, where things are peaceful and still, before this Seattle air quite corrupts a rural pair.” The question &. | Am 1 wise? The matter ix simple, Prize ye mont | the stress and the strain of er wtrife, ye gain calm and content with one’s ease and leave to dream ‘neath the trees FRANK F. EDDY. Holland Hotel he é cinta Sir: T am an old eivil war veteran, over 80 years of age. I fought the Sioux and was not afraid, but am afraid to come to Seni grizzly and her two cubs charge at 20 paces, and I was not jeery” at going to Seattle the Chilikeot pass; I ran the mighty Yukon in 1908, but I prefer th go around Seattie. I met the wounded buffalo b&y in ‘63 } be. died clone by; that was sport; but Yoyal wport on Qhe streets of Seattle is one too many. } s0at one | eye in the glare of the North snows—4 do not want to have the other knocked out by an auto in Seattle “Hut the danger's self is lure alone.” | So if you will get Joef Warren to give a permit |} to bring a doybied shotgun loaded with buckshot, | L will come over, and kill the first crazy, careless galoot that comes at me with his car. Here's how CAPT, H. 8, BACK. she ¢ suddgnly in her afraid, but I am I faced tp terrors of the dangerot, rapids of | Tomorrow | | OWS Apri in 1269, the cornerstone of the Bastil | was laid in Paris by Hugues d'Aubroit, founder of the Huguenots. The fortress was not completed | until 16 years later, Originally the Bastile had | military purpdke as one of the principal points in the ancient fortifications of Paris; but as the old fortifi were superseded, the castle of St ax the Bastile was then called, | prison than a” fortress and ultimftely was | entirely for state prisoners. For four centuries, until | ite destruction at the hands of the populace aly | 14, 1789, the Bastile housed the most noted political | prisoners of the Frénch empire. Among them were |.the Man in the Iron Mask, Richelieu, Voltaire, and ‘Cardinal de Rohan. On April 22, in 1889, the United Statew government opened to settlers the central section of what was then known as Indian Territory, Many thousands of pioneers were gathered on the border awaiting the sigual of the army buglers, When the bugle sounded the people rushed by the thousands ac the bouwhdary lines and staked out their claims. In a single day thé new publicdands which formed the territory of Oflahoma were entirely staked out and occupied, In 1898, on April the first shot of the Spanish American war was fired by the United States steam ship NaswVille in action against a Spanish merchant man-—the Buena Vis On April 22, 1914, Vera Cruz, Mex {’by a United States naval force under Fletcher. The act was not a formal declaration of war against Mexico, but was directed against | Hherta, who had congtituted himself dictator of Mex ico, The Americans held Vera Crux until December 1 1914 cations Antoine, became more of a used was captured Rear Admiral EXPERIENCED “Well, if you've had 10 years’ care of children, 1 think you'll do.” “Iyl gust take a/look at the children an’ they'll do” experience taking see if or would! I have met the/| Gen, | pn. ny (Copy rig FRANK CRANE 1 —— young gra new-born! hatching and all ete e the human breast! bright belief, that each nest in the ruing of life! eggs, thing *Yes, said the old man, I see, I under- stand, but at what a price Thru the storm clouds of youth I ean glimpse the caim sunset. Thru hot angers and strident passions I can detect the cool note of the peace that is to come when the ebullience has died down. Thru wars I can see the onward step of civilization, that inestimable progress for which so bitter a toll was demanded. Thru the night of petulancé, resentments, misunderstandings and lovers’ quarrels I see the gncoming dawn of reconciliation. Thru the muddy waters of ignorance 1 perceive the approach of wisdom, and thru the fires of sin the revealing of the fine gold, | Thru life and its turmoil I see death and jits rest, and thru death the unfolding of the great adventure. @ 3ut I have paid for my vision with my youth, and with my strength have I paid for my understanding. I am old and frail and vision, that pearl of great squandefed all my forces: incarnation wherein my other youth before me, not like a blind fool, only in passionate stincts of my soul? Below the surface Of what we my we feel An light The central stream I can hear that noisel now, I sense the actual. ia 1 understand. For But at what a price! have broken. price fc oye Aha! of I have here er's effects I have something of the wisdom the gods | t got hix dome have, but they on Olympus are happily bang! bang! born to it, while to gain it I have ground my heart between the-upper and nether millstones of experience. Are und in mine ears mi 4 thousand y murmur here. instead For what has destiny equipped me? What career had the gods in mind in my educa- @ he flacied ition, and why the extravagant cost of my See understanding? : ABD hegoce Answer me, springtime and at that? to the Easter, ana y perience will not be wasted? in mistakes, serenely rounding out the magnificen And, I wonder, what for? and a lead freckled dime. leaping Answer me, year some but of what we think we feel With noiseless current strong, obscure and of what we feel indeed” nal hope of immortality that thru g, ions of dying men has refused to le Answer me, O bird ¢ builds if Is it because I am prepared for some me richness of Have T sphere, where 4 can love and do and fiw stumbling fo rrent of tj I I see. WHAT WOULD YOU PAY FOR IT? Now gents, gather tn close to the p going under the hammer, the last of His eximperial mustache . so Tl pound the samé thing! jihelm had stepping for all occa and was the lip - vine He night this wore it to a bis facial b bars in Even they ; It r decorated wild. times for ~—_ lantry displayed in imperial snore Think of action the it Bang! WRIGLEY: @ flavor for every Finish the Job! Subscribe to the \ “VICTORY” ton nightn went Bill i now flying his nose foliage at half n conquering conquer his lip lawn. Going, going, tebaceo wooden Indian for a last ye the world, Now, {TT ER TERS ERI NTS et